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Can an employer firer you if you have a work related injury and have a doctors note to stay home?

I have been on sick leave for 14 day and now employer has demoted me from my position for 10 years for no reason and having them go thru my office and leaving my site with confidential info which I now feel violated and feel constructive dismissal is in the works

My employer of 25 + years has unilaterally decided that it will no longer provide office space for its information technology staff and has ordered me to telework. I believe this may be a breach of an implied term of my employment contract that would satisfy the first branch of the test for constructive dismissal. Am I correct?

I am a support analyst for an Accounting Software Company. Our company had a round of layoffs in December. In late January, in addition to the extra work resulting from the layoffs within my department, I also advised I would be responsible for Documentation as the person who had been hired to be in charge of Documentation was laid off. I brought up my objections after the first of 2 one hour training sessions. During that meeting, I was given the impression that this would be temporary and that they would push to make changes, and that for now, I would just need to maintain the release notes documentation which occurs once or twice a month. I've recently been approached about making large scale formatting changes and instructional changes that are well outside what I would consider the general maintenance of release notes. My concern is if I am entitled to a constructive dismissal, that I may have waited too long, or have a limited time to act.

I have recently been terminated from my workplace without cause. I was never presented with a contract when hired. I had not received a written notice nor verbal. I have been recently harassed and bullied, spoke to supervisors and GM's regarding this and nothing was done. I would like someone to point me in the wright direction and explain what my next steps would be. I had recently brought up a possible harassment case towards another employee and was terminated by the end of the same day. They had mentioned that some errors were made and I was just not a good fit, meanwhile i had just attended training last week in order to become a company auditor, received and increase in January as well as a bonus equivalent to other employees. I was also scheduled for further training last week going into this week. I am not sure why they would spend time building up more training for an employee who is not a good fit. Any advise would be appreciated Thank you Andrea Porcelli