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i got laid off from my work. its unionize. i was only given 1 week extra pay. i have work there for 3 yrs. I found a job after i got laid off. work there for 3 weeks and 2 days. i didnt have a proper job training but i did my best. my work is in par or better than the older guys there. so yesterday i was told to fix the insulation of the machine, the contractors did work on it. my supervisor told me just add additional insulation for the unevenness of the insulation. but the professional contractor said just trim it buy cutting it, cause its not going to look good if i add insulation. so the contractor trimmed the insulation and left. so i continued the repair by trimming so it will even out. then the boss came and gave me shit why i didnt listen to him. now this morning the supervisor came to me first minute the shift start. gave me shit again why did i cut the insulation. so i explained to him that the contractor did the cutting and i'm just trying to even it out. he got pissed at me and told me better fix that or get out of my shop! i cannot work with this kind of environment, so i told him politely that i'm leaving and file the complaint against him. basically he's firing me but i decided to quit. what is my option.
Can you be fired because owner wanted to replace you with his friend?
I work with my company for 11 years any problem or complaint from my employer, friday I got terminated because of a mistake I made sending information on the email. Does my employer has the right to fire me without the warning. Pay me only for seven months
What is fired for cause and can I sue for Wrongful Dismissal?
Hello, I was previously wrongfully dismissed for no reason. I was in the process of filing a wrongful dismissal case which I expressed to my union sector representative, in short time I was rehired and placed with the same foreman who had threatened and harassed me in the past. In that process there were no written records taken of the wrong doing done to me which I found very unsettling as this would not protect me from any future reprisals. I recorded the second conversation I had with that union rep. At a later time I was finally switched to another crew. In the future my new foreman told me that the employer wanted to lay me off because of a WSIB claim I had. I was assaulted at work by a coworker (the employer did not follow the ESA and contacted the police or ministry of labour), spent the rest of the day working with an injured nose. The employer made no attempt to take me to the hospital to get it checked out. After completing the day of work I had my nose checked out at my local hospital. Near the end of my termination the employer rehired an employee who had previously quit. Ramblings that they were getting slow started to get relayed to me. I said to the employee that had quit, if they were getting slow then why would they rehire you? I was told to stay home for a couple days by the foreman. I asked, what is a couple days? The foreman said two. I was off for over a week and never heard anything. I called the company and asked for my roe so I could file for EI and haven't heard anything from them since then. Not even an expected date of return. I have been searching for work since my wrongful dismissal. I have also kept records of harassment and threats against me from the previous foreman who was the reason why I was wrongfully dismissed in the first place. Ever since then I believe the employer has been waiting for time to pass by to let the whole situation to cool off before getting back at me and fire me under right circumstances which I believe weren't present. I also filed a section 74 against the union for misrepresentation. I believe the union has not acted in good faith. After filing the S.74 against them they denied the fact that they misrepresented me and asked that the case be withdrawn and that I had failed to make a prima facie case… When the recordings say otherwise and the lack of any wrongful dismissal records being taken by the union. The union rep acted arbitrarily which is in circumvention of the collective agreement. The union after receiving the S.74 filed a grievance for May 29, 2014 (a potential hearing expressed in an email). I replied that I would not be available that day and that I was also seeking guidance from the Ontario Labour Relations Board. The union continued without me being present and the grievance they filed was withdrawn which I would like to remind was only filed after they received the S.74. At a later time a union rep approached me on the job site and presented me with a check. I was told that in order to receive the check I would have to sign a document. The document stated that the union fully represented me etc. I told them that I would not sign that and that I did not approve of the way they handled the grievance and also by law that check belongs to me. It has my name on it and also by the employment standards act that money is owed to me as lost wages. I asked if I could get a copy of the waiver they wanted me to sign, they would not give me one and left shortly after. After going through all of this I do not trust the union’s legal department, I am seeking a professional opinion on the matter to see what all my available options are.
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