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I am a certified automotive technician with drive clean certification for inspection and repair which is why i was hired, less than a year later i am told there is not enough work so they are no longer doing emissions tests and was given two days notice but two employees who have been there less time than me and were not on payroll were going to stay, and the employer wants one of them to get their certification for drive clean and is going to put him on payroll. There is much more going on to be able to say here but I need a lawyer and cannot afford a consultation fee. What can i do? I have a wife and two kids to take care of.

I was terminated after working for almost a year because my employer said he could no longer afford to pay me. Based on my employment contract, my employer had to pay me a month's termination pay. He gave me postdated cheques on my last day of work as my termination pay, all of which bounced. I contacted him about the bounced cheques and he emailed me that the company has run out of money and he will pay me the amount owing if and when he gets tax credits from the government. After I was terminated he hired someone else to fill the position and terminated them after a week. Now he informed me that he is shutting down the business. He has also not sent me a Record of Employment after multiple requests.

I've been hired through a temp agency with the promise of hire on in a growing company. Since being with this company, it has utilized all my experience in the warehouse industry and above my contract title with the agency. I had brought this to the temp agencies attention several times with no response, up until yesterday February 18, 2015. I was promised a pay increase and instead was dismissed due to altercations that weren't rectified between other temps attitudes towards myself and the authority with responsibility I was given. I had brought these altercations to the supervisor and management with no resolution. Instead I was segregated from other employees and later on that day, dismissed. I feel unrightfully justified, used betrayed and humiliated by a company I gave 110% of myself in cooperation. I am now unemployed and have passed up many opportunities from other employers prior to my release. I would like to know my rights before I go into detail further. If possible?

6 weeks into a new job, with no warning, my daughter went in to work today and was told that her employment is terminated as of today due to her performance. I know she exceeded her target for January and is on target for February. Never given any prior warning. She was being harassed by a colleague and complained. I think this is the real reason but her Manager insisted it was performance. They have offered her 3weeks pay if she sign this long waiver about not taking this further etc - what can she do?

I was employed for 3 years with a company and made assistant manager last fall with my own store. On Feb 1st the owner, manager and a employee showed up and told me I was done because I did not seem happy. They are now turning it around and saying that I quit because I walked out on my shift. When employees are dismissed we give them 3 warning letters, I never received anything.