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After 7 years of loyalty to the company it happened that in a busy season I volunteer to do the graveyard shift. I was never given a partner to help me with the excess of work. When the busy season ended and was time for performance review I was told that I would only get 30 cents raise and I was asked if I wanted to have hours cut. I switched my full time status to casual and I started working for myself as Uber driver. I recently came back to the company to help temporarily as freelancer and I'm only given $15 per hour and worst of all I got terminated from casual employee. I asked why I'm getting paid so low as a freelancer and my manager told me because I quit. I never quit I just became casual

Can a company ask you to work still when you get laid off within the months of notice?

I was hired as a contractor through an Agency to work for BMO. I get paid similar to part time: CPP, EI and income tax are taken off my paycheck, but I am not considered an employee of BMO, a common practice in the company to save retirement and health benefit costs. However, what I did not know was that the mother agency of my agency had a rule that contractors cannot stay longer than 18 months, so I was told 3 weeks before the 18 months that they were letting me go for this reason. I would have never agreed to this contract if I knew this information! Has my rights been violated?

Can an employer terminate your employment without prior written or verbal warnings?

11 year employee here, if company is forcing me to go on disability , that is apply and go on std or ltd ( which I doubt I will get from Sunlife) because they cannot accommodate me at work, is this considered a termination of some sort? I have to call Friday, what should I ask the nurse ? Should I ask her if i am being terminated ??? After Friday when the nurse calls, w they put it in the hands of Sunlife, would this be an employment issue or a sunlife issue ? Do I a get a severance, if let go and put on disability ? they are comparing my medical testing with a job demand analysis of my current job, to see if I can function at a level that is satisfactory to them, does this become a human rights issue ?