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My wife has worked for one of Canada's biggest Jazz Pianists for the last 8 years . She has toured all over the world with this artist . After 8 years she was notified that they are downsizing and that her position will no longer be there . She found out that her position is still there and that they have replaced her . She was a freelancer at the beginning but after 8 years of touring does she have any legal recourse . They gave her aa little severance at the end . thank you

After 28 of employment with the same employer my company was purchased our main competitor, a company that in the past has tried unsuccessfully many times to have me join them. I have refused their offers in the pasts because I do not believe in their product nor do my customers. All of my coworkers have been offered severance and let go. While I alone was given a job offer and not reassigned . Does this imply that because it is an offer I can refuse the position with new owner and be intitaled to severance from the old owner

I have been employed for almost 9 years. At the end of February, I advised my employee that I would be retiring at the end of May. At the time, he was worried that I was not giving enough notice. He mentioned it would take 1 month to find a replacement, 1 month to have them give notice and start work here and 1 month to train them. Now, he wants me to leave at the end of the first week in May (May 4th). That would leave me 4 weeks of no pay. What are my rights?

We work in a before and after program with school age children. Our program has allowed autistic children in the program in the last year. Children in the school system have Educational Assistants with them. Our program wants us to care for these children. Some are non verbal and need tioleting. We are not EA’s and have no training. Can we be forced to work with these children? We fear for their safety as well as iour own. This child is also known to be a runner and we are responsible for 14 other children. Can we be fired for refusing? Can we be forced to work with these children if we are uncomfortable?

My employment offer has a termination clause - states maximum liability for wrongful dismissal, severance pay or payment in lieu shall be limited to payment as specified in the British Columbia Employment Standards Act. Does this limit ability for more than the minimum number of weeks, precluding the other factors like employability, age, position level.