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My mother is 73 years old and has worked for the same catering company since 1988 (28 years) and was recently laid off even though she had seniority (he kept several younger women) and he has no plan of calling her back to work. Is she entitled to some kind of severance pay? I called the labour board and they said she was - but is was only 8 weeks and that is the maximum. So my questions are...1. Is she entitled to more that 8 weeks pay and if so how much? 2. How do we prove this is a permanent lay off? 3. How does she go about claiming any additional money owed to her? And is there away to do this so it won't affect her EI benefits. As I said my mom is 72 and doesn't have a pension so every little bit counts
Ive been a waiter for 30 years.ive been employed by this company for 18 months on Wednesday night a friend of the owner called him and complained about my service 20 minutes later my manager informed u was to leave right away i was fired the next day ive never been written up or suspended is he aloud to do this
How many instances of tardiness is one allowed before the company can terminate the employee?
I was employed at junebug interior design, a newly opened store in the Pickering town centre. After approximately 2 months everyone was laid off. The employer and their family own and run the business, and she has held back on our final pay. How do l go about getting my last pay? She said it was mailed Well over 30 days ago. And now ignores my calls.
I had been employed with Cash Money (CMCC.) for 3 months, and had been off my training probabtion period for 1 day when the incident occurred. As an employee of CMCC, I was responsible for cashing cheques, payday loans, western union, currency exchange, and other services. Throughout my training period I was repeatedly complimented on good work ethic. On October 27, I was the victim of a quick-change scam while working at CMCC. Two women entered the branch with $3300.00 in $100.00 Cdn bills. They asked for it to be changed over to smaller denominations. During the entire transaction, they kept asking questions about the store, different services, as well as to my colleagues around me. As I counted out the $3300.00 in $50.00s, they tried to rush me and didn’t want it double counted. As soon as I gave them the stack of $3300.00 in $50s, they changed their minds and asked for it in U.S. currency. I proceeded to explain that we would need I.D. for that type of transaction. They asked for a list of everything they would need to do the currency exchange, and while I was writing it down, they pocketed half the stack, $1450. Upon returning their original sum of $3300.00, they promptly left. I realized what happened and immediately informed my manager, who was in the back but was aware of the type of transaction I was doing. He assured me that while I would be written up, I was not to worry. The next day I was called into a meeting with my manager. He had decided, along with our District Manager (his superior) to place me on a Final Warning notice. In this capacity, I would need to complete a month-long training exercise with my manager, and would be placed on a three month probation for cash handling, wherein if I was “short” over $90.00 it would be grounds for dismissal. In a further development, the day after (Oct 29) the same two women visited another CMCC branch and committed the same fraud, getting away with $1700. The employee who was scammed at that branch was told the same thing as me, and given the same conditions. About a week later, November 3, I was called into a meeting with my manager and DM, and told that Head Office had changed their minds and decided to let both of us go for failing to follow proper cash handling procedures. We were the victims and were told it was going to be okay, but that didn’t happen. My manager told me that he would act as a reference for me, and was visibly upset when they let me go.
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