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I settled out of court in my wrongful dismissal case but now the company is in CCAA. they saw that I am a unsecured creditor. I am told by my lawyer that there is nothing I can do but wait. Is this true? It is just the Canadian arm of the company that is in CCAA. I was a corporate employee of the American company.

I am a manager at a restaurant. I was off sick for surgery and felt they rushed me back. My boss was also innapropriate over the phine when I called to extend my time off. I even offered to use vacation days. I went in yesterday for a shift I had to cover because of my absence. My manager was there and I felt like he was attacking me about working more hours. I told him he was being disrespectful. He continued and I walked out. He ordered me to come back. I said "no, after the way you have treated me, I do not respect you". He said " get out of here". I said " you are firing me" ? He said "yes". I was one day short of being employed for 3 months with the company. My question is...do I qualify for severance?

I was dismissed this morning the supervisor wasn't clear what for other than saying I had three complaints of not doing enough work on job site I work in construction and have been there for just under a year also there has been a new foreman that has been ridiculing everything me and other people have been doing enough to drive u crazy what should I do

Hey there, I have been working at the Ymca since October. Before that I had been volunteering for almost a year at the Y. Recently I was fired from the Ymca summer camps by cause of a complaint made by a lady from the public. The complaint reached head office and that was that. The reason they insisted was that I am a 'possible threat to the children'. I have 6 character references from much longer-term ymca coworkers stating otherwise. Also, the more I ask around to my former coworkers to confirm reasons and people head office supposedly spoke to, the less concrete their reasons become. I was accorded no warnings before that, verbal or written, nor had any comments constructive or otherwise been made on my conduct and/or interactions with the children. I have already contacted labour board and they told me in the case of this termination applying to all ymca programs, to speak to a lawyer. I really love the kids and don't want to be cut off from the only job I've ever enjoyed. So here's me asking: do I have a case for wrongful dissmissal or am I in dream land?

My duties were increased, my title was not inclined with my duties, when I requested a title adjustment, I was given two options, either a demotion or a layoff. If I choos the demotion, I would loos 15000 pay in commission. What should I choos or do, I think I've being forced to choose the layoff as the new title is complete different from my expertise.