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I was terminated for “time theft” but the company has no proof and I did not steal any time.
I was just fired by my employer because I took a day off to take care of my sick son, and I was sick as well by the end of Friday. I have been mistreated and subjected to gaslighting by the HR manager and her buddies since I started because they don't like the lawyer I was working for. I have had no discussions that suggest my work was not up to par, other than the continual changing and oblique process for sending bills to accounting. I was terrified of being yelled at by the HR manager again. Yesterday evening I was fired, while I was puking my guts out and told that I won't be paid for the 4 days I worked last week so they are paid back for the time off that I had taken. I AM A SALARIED EMPLOYEE!!
I have been employed for 33.5 years with the same organization (the initial 5 years were on contractual basis) that has changed ownership 2 times during that period. I fear that something is coming over a recent event that will need explanation for you to understand. I fear going back onto the company property due to this situation. I would like to talk to someone regarding it before returning to work.
A notice of a mandatory staff meeting has been posted at my work . It also states though that if we do not attend our names will be taken off the weekly scheduale , meaning we will no longer work there. Is this right.
I started a new job on Monday. I was working through an agency as a contractor working at a client site. Because I am new to Toronto, I mis-judged the commute time and was 10-15 minutes late three days in a row. My manager terminated my contract after hours (I received the news from my agency at 6PM) with no warning and no notice to me (he never even spoke to me about it), and now he wants to dock my pay 1/2 hour for two days, even though I stayed late on Tuesday (which can be confirmed by looking at my computer network logout) and was planning to stay late Wednesday, but was told by my trainer that we'd pick things up in the morning and I should go home. I further suspect that the manager in question didn't want to hire me, because there was an inexplicable delay (one week) in getting the paperwork approved at the client site, and I never received my security badge (most new hires at that company receive theirs the first or second days). My trainer and assigned mentor both told me I was doing an excellent job, and at the end of the day on Wednesday, we were talking about what I was going to do in the morning, so it was obvious that the manager never communicated anything to them. I never received an offer of any severance or anything, either. I admit that I was late. I was willing, if warned, to outline a proactive strategy to make sure I arrived on time, and was taking active steps to make sure I would arrive on time. (On Monday night, my cat nearly died and I was at the emergency vet's until very late, which meant I overslept on Tuesday.) I do not drive, so this involved coordinating transit schedules between TTC buses, subway, and York Region Transit buses. My questions are: Do I have any legal rights in this matter? Am I entitled to any severance? Is a manager allowed to terminate a contractor's contract for alleged disciplinary reasons without any process such as warnings or meetings? If the agency through which I was working decides to blackball me as a contractor (and they're one of the biggest tech recruiters around, so that could have really negative consequenses for my career), do I have any recourse?
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