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Hi there. I was fired last week and am wondering if I can file against my employer for constructive dismissal. I was hired to be an Office administrator and sales position. Within weeks I was being asked to write proposals, interview people/fire people, write Policies and Procedure manuals for Health and Safety and Quality Assurance, build a website, all of which I was never trained to do. I was also given the Title of Account manager within days of working there and later made a supervisor and manager where I was signing contracts and authorizing time off. I was basically winging everything as my boss was never in the office to show me how to do these things. I was not only running the buisness but building it from the ground up. I didn't agree to any of these things upon my hiring. Last week tuesday He called me into a meeting because he didn't think that the quality assurance policy made sense and said my work was inadequate. I explained that I was never trained to do these things and that I was doing my best. He had me in a meeting for 3 hours where he was yelling at me, telling me I'm stupid, slamming hist fist on the table, triggering my anxiety disorder and PTSD, all I could do was cry everything was so loud that other people from other businesses on the floor went into the office and asked the payroll girl if I was ok in the other room because it was getting really intense. The HR lady then joined the meeting and he calmed down a bit, they decided to give me a 2 week period to see if my work would improve. I explained that there had never been an issue with my work before and that if I would have had the proper training and support that I would have been able to have completed it better. The next morning he came into the office and looked over a proposal I had created that needed to be delivered by 1pm. He said everything was fine with it and to get it ready to go out. I did. This was at 11:30 am, he was still in the office, drinking alcohol, by 12:15 pm, at 12:30 he raced into the office and said one thing needed to be changed on the proposal, i rushed to change it and he left. 15 minutes later he calls the office yelling and cursing at me that he wasn't going to make it on time and that "I'm a fuck up and I fucked the whole thing up" I began to cry and ask him to stop yelling at me becuase he was verbally attacking me and I wasn't ok with that. I said I would talk to him when he calmed down. He returned to the office and promptly fired me. Please help in this situation if you can
I was on light duties due to a WSIB claim. I waz encouraged to get a dr note to return to rwgular duties. I brought in the note and the next day they terminated me
I was recently terminated from my job as a customer service representative along with a fellow employee because we both had returns done under our names from another employee who was using aliases instead of his actual name. We have both now been terminated and banned from the store under the pretenses that we were in "cahoots" with the employee doing the returns. We both knew the employee personally, but were unaware that the returns being made were not or should not have been allowed. Understanding that we should have gone to management about the issue, we trusted that employee doing the returns. Police were contacted during my questioning and the threaten of being personally charged was made by the store manager. I later had to go down to the station to make a statement and even the police officer said that he believes we were victims in the situation and doesn't think we should have lost our jobs. This may be a blessing in disguise in our eyes, and truthfully after feeling humiliated I am not interested in returning to my position at this store, but I'd like to know what if any legal action can take place? Additionally, is it right that we both were terminated for that reason alone? Even so, should we be banned from the store premises?
My daughters manager is forcing them to resign if they want to take a 3 week vacation during the slow period of the restaurant. Jan/Feb can he do this?
the whole office I work at were brought into a meeting last week. there was a some guy we have never met before and he said everyone is getting written contracts and we have to sign them. We were given the contract and a letter saying the contract starts in 6 months and we have to agree to it and the owner will give us $500. I've been there one year. is that legal? can they force us to sign a contract?
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