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My fiancé is currently in the process of being fired from his job with a moving company. He has received employee of the month a few times and has been praised for his hard work until last week. Money had gone missing from a clients house and the company immediately blamed my fiancé for the missing money. He did not take it. They solely blamed him because it was in the same room he had packed. He had explained to me that there were many people in and out of the house while the job was happening and he even offered for the client to search the truck. He then told me there was an investigation going on through the company and then told me he and his co-workers were interrogated and recorded about the missing money. He was not asked if he could be recorded and the interviewer kept telling him to confess over and over as my fiancé explained over and over he didn't do anything and neither did his guys. He was later told but his other workers that they were yelled at and pushed to the point of tears. He feels that no matter what was said they wanted to pin it on him. In the end nothing was accomplished and my fiancé is losing his job. What can he do? We both don't have money now and he has 3 children to support.

I was forced out of my job as well as 3 other managers. We received no compensation. I myself was only in the retirement home for 4 months but I was bullied and harassed, given unrealistic dates of completion, was expected to do pay roll for my nursing department as well many other situations that led to my resignation. Because I resigned health and safety said they couldn't help me but did say I was indeed harassed. What can I do?

I was the office manager for an accounting firm for over 12 years. An employee purchased the business January of 2014(ROE on file for the sale). While that employee and I were co-workers, she had an attitude towards me. As soon as she became the owner she immediately demoted me, without my knowledge, I was informed by a client that on our company's website I no longer had my title, when I confronted the new owner, she reinstated my management position. In the last 2 year she has continuously undermined my position, my work, and spoke down to me in front of my subordinates, and co-workers. In the past few weeks the new owner received a couple of complaints from clients about my dealings with them. I was not inform of this until the afternoon of October 5, 2016, I requested a meeting to discuss it, I was not giving any opportunity to give my side of the story, just that they were the client and they were right, even to the point of being called a liar, at that moment I was very upset (I take my job and clients very serious) I did not want the conversation to escalate out of control, while crying I left the new owners office and went home. Upon returning to work (October 11 2016), I was giving a letter of termination effective immediately, (with 8 weeks severance included), without any verbal or written warning. I have never received any type of warnings from the the new owner since she purchased the business. I said to the new owner, "This isn't right we need to discuss this with my side of the situation being part of the conversation" her response "Too late this cannot be fixed , I have put a box on your desk, please take all personal belongings and good bye" If you would like any verification from co-workers on the situation and attitude that the new owner had towards me I can provide the information for you to be able to contact them.

My boss thinks he can fire me because I'm rude and have life lessons to learn however I'm not rude I even call him sir all the time and apologize when needed too

Can I be terminated for what my district manager likes to call "creating drama", but is really acting on what my responsibilities are supposed to be and acting on things that he does not communicate with me are otherwise "special privileges" for certain people.