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I worked for a company for 3 months and 1 week. They tried to say this was within my probation period and refused to submit severance pay. The week previous to my termination, my manager wrote an email to me saying how glad she was that they had hired me. I received no verbal or written warnings to correct any issues they had. I was terminated suddenly, while I was under the impression I was performing well. I wrote asking for the week severance and for an explanation for my termination and was told I was a bad fit and I was owed no severance pay. I believe this constitutes wrongful dismissal because I was given no feedback to give me the opportunity to improve. Further to that the email saying I was doing very well the week before contradicts the termination. This situation I found myself in is unprofessional and being unemployed 2 weeks before Christmas was devastating. What should I do? Is wrongful dismissal applicable to my situation?

As a part time permanent secretary with a union office , 9 years no incidents I was fired for benefit fraud ($780h approx ) as soon as we found out we had made a error we repaid the amount in full . The situation is as in regards to our youngest sons braces , ( we never had a issue with any of our 4 boys ) he was still getting treatments but we were already paid and our orthodontist was already paid in full , the confusion came from our son injuring his mouth and breaking his braces about a year prior , we made the error and continued to submit for the payments . The confusion came as we had a standard audit in 2015 called our orthodontic office then they sent paperwork and everything was fine , again we had a standard audit in 2017 so when I called back to the orthodontist office and advised of the audit they assumed it was from the 2015 audit and I was not specific or did I specify it was a new one so they sent all the original receipts , when I recieved the receipts I assumed they were for the 2017 audit and not check dates just submitted them . Our orthodontist has spoken for us and validated our creditablity that this was a clerical error not fraud or malicious in any manor . On a side not we would never jeopardize my job , pension , benefits and wxpescially our reputation for any amount of money let alone such a little some . We own our home and property , vehicles carry little to no debt , donate to charity ( considerable amounts ) and are considered affluent as a family .

I missed mandatory managerial meeting at Popeyes chicken and they want to fire me. I've never had a feeble or written warning

I was employed for six weeks then wrongfully dismissed because another employee was bullying me and causing trouble in the office. I was there less time so they fired me immediately

Ive been late to work here and there and have been verbally told to get this straightened out. I have never been writen up and never signed anything. We have GPS trackers on our commercial vehicles. This is how they can tell when we are late. We take our commercial trucks home. An hour here or 30 minutes is the max I have been late. I was let go last week. Is this reasonable? This was the reason. There was no severance.