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I am pregnant and am off on a sick leave bbefore my maternity leave starts. Because I will be off for more than my 52 weeks my employer is threatening my employment for when I return. Also there has been problems all along with discrimination of me being pregnant since my boss can't have children herself. She has already made me feel bad for being pregnant and tried to take hours and pay away to supplement for the new hire who is taking my place wail I am gone. I have been employed for 8 years with these people and never have any problems until I am pregnant. Is it OK for them to be threatening my job and can they take my job since I will be off for 62 weeks not 52.

I am an Educational Assistant in Ontario and the administrator has made my life unbearable. I am singled out repeatedly on an almost daily basis. I've had to take 2 months stress leave but when I went back, things just escalated. A book was found in the school's library documenting 2 E.A's and one Teacher, me being one of them. She makes awful comments to me such as "I come from a place where E.A's can think on their own, she humiliated me in front of the secretary one day because I hadn't paid 50 dollars for a gift fund that was to be used for gifts for staff, this was approximately a couple of weeks after my nephew was tragically killed in a work related accident. She has spoken to the other teachers and now I am treated with total distain, when I walk into a classroom, teachers look at the clock so they can report any tardiness. I have a ton of incidents documented. A couple of weeks ago, I was supervising in the gym, I am blind in my left eye so did not see a basketball and it hit me hard on the side of my head, I went to the staff room to ask the teachers if someone could help me and go to the gym so I could take care of myself, not one teacher moved, they laughed and ignored me. I filed an incident report detailing this, the administrator was away that day so she asked the teachers what happened, they lied and said that I wasn't hurt and that one of them did go to the gym. This is not true and a couple of students can confirm this. Since then, work has become a place of fear and tension and extreme stress for me. Do I have a case? I can't go on this way anymore, I am seeing a councillor now because I can't cope and I do have several E.A's that said they would support me. I've called my Union President more times than I can count and nothing has ever been done. Please tell me whether or not I should proceed with a law suit. I've given only a few examples of what is happening, it doesn't even touch the surface.

I have been suspended by my employer for a week now due to a minor incident that I did not intend to make. They told me that HR will contact me in about a week but so far I have not heard from anyone. Should I contact them or continue to wait? I am worried that they are delaying the issue and use this time to perform more investigation and find some other incidents and use them against me and then dismiss me with cause. What should I do? I have been employed with this company for more than 20 years. If I am dismissed with cause, will I still get anything out of the company?

I was hired as a director for a company in Ontario however they are a federally regulated company. I was terminated two and a half days into my probation period. I was not given adequate time to demonstrate my ability to do the job before I was terminated. I was compensated for the two and a half days of employment. I had to relocate to a new city for this position. My questions are: Is it legal to dismiss someone on probation before they have been given a chance to demonstrate their capabilities? My contract does not stipulate a notice period during my probation, but is no notice without compensation acceptable? And finally, my contract stipulates that I would get a relocation allowance unless I voluntarily left the company. Am I entitled to that money?

Is Wrongful Dismissal pay taxable?