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I have been dealing with panic and anxiety issues lately with my current employment site. I've been with them for three years now. I went to my supervisor and talked to her about these issues. I asked her for help thinking that we would have some sort of program in place. Pretty much in a nut shell she told me my only option was for them to lay me off. I dont want to lose my position or my seniority status, I was just asking for help. There was no offer to help.

I am currently in a high risk pregnancy and a Diabetic, I work for a placement agency witch placed me at a bank, when my contract had finished the employer had extended my contract and mentioned there was a high probability that I would become permanently part of the company, A month ago a new manager entered the team and now my contract that was til the end of 2020 was reduced to March 21st, i was then subsequently let go march 5th and they are citing because I spend to much time going to the doctors evne though I have called in sick 1 day because of the pregnancy but aside from that I was just late on the days i needed to go to the high risk clinic, DO I have a case?

The restuarant I work for has threatened to fire me for lost coupons and letting someone use 2 coupons for 1 meal. Are they allowed? I'm in ontario

I was fired unexpectedly with no notice and repremands in my file. I am part of a union so there any sort of recourse for their actions. I did not receive any notification, an roe, or anything except a grievance meeting that I have no time or date at the moment

If an employee is dismissed for "shortage of work" and another employee is then promoted to cover part of that employee's duties and another is hired four months later to cover another part of the employee's duties, does it qualify for wrongful dismissal? It was acknowledged on several occasions leading up to the termination that the employee's workload was far too high.