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I had been working at my job for over 3 years, I was an assistant manager. I was promoted over a year ago, I do way more then my job description requires me to do. I've done my managers course. I am was way under paid according to the pay scale, I had asked my employer (owner) for a raise, where he told me no. so I had said I will not be doing anything out of my job description from now on. After saying this the owner asked what I got paid. with out knowing what I was paid he already turned me down. The next week I was expected to do something that is not in my job description, I had refused and he fired me.

I was disabled in 2006 and was receiving disability benefits from my employer. I will turn 65 on August 9th. I just got a letter from them that they will prepare a retirement package for me comprised of a Defined Contribution (company pension) and Defined Contribution which I contributed to 50-50 with them. Can they 'retire' me at age 65 without a severance package? Thank you. ( Is this a termination at age 65?)

I suddenly got fired she says I was rude to a customer. I answered to a man in the parking lot on my clock that we didn't open the store till 8am. Then I went inside. My boss said I was rude 5 times before this. If so she never gave me written notice. I was rude once and immediately aapologized to the customer for it. She gave me 2 weeks severance pay and my last pay in 1 cheque. What can I do. I applied for UI but feel I won't qualify. Her word against mine

I am 53 years old (female). I have worked at an organization for 36 years. I have been approached about accepting a severance package. I am open to it just want to ensure I am treating fairly. My salary is just over $100k. I have a good pension plan where the company pays in 5.5% of my salary and my yearly bonus is 13% of my gross pay. The bonus has to be earned so isn't always the full 13%.

My daughter got fired today after working for this company for a year..she was let go for a reason that could have been prevented on the employers side..they did a few improvement reviews on every employee and would then give the employee an opprotunity to improve her abilities and work ethic..my daughter passed the second last review and they said she was doing great and they saw a huge improvement, but before she had a few reviews that still needed improvement. She had informed her employer that she would be attending summer school for this month(July) but she was still available to work evenings and weekends as the employer had requested what her availability would be like.This was not an issue for her and gave them plenty of notice, as well they knew when they hired her, she was living on her own paying rent and needing to provide for herself. I feel this is a wrongful dismissal as they told her she was improving in her job and gave her the impression that it was working out, but then they cut her hours and never scheduled her for any availability after school and weekends, then scheduled her for a night shift today(July 16), only to bring her in and fire her!.She was not given the opprotunity to continue proving herself and they stopped scheduling her?...Please help!