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My employer has given me 4 options to choose on terminating me in my current position within their organization. A deadline was set for Jan 1, 2015 to complete courses and tests to become a regulated Pharmacy Technician. The organization mandated that all Pharmacy Assistants in the organization would no longer be able to work if they did not meet the qualifications on regulation. The regulation process is a voluntary process and our current job does not change, the organization also stated they would not be in favour of a two tier system which would allow both Pharmacy Assistants & Pharmacy Technicians in their organization, their position is to go with a Hybrid model. Some Pharmacy assistants were successful on completing regulation courses, exams and tests and the employer did pay for some of the costs associated with regulation, but others were not and now their options are voluntary exit package, 6 month LOA to complete the courses, job vacancies are being held to assign you into a position of lesser salary and a demeaning position, or early retirement pkgs Is there grounds here for constructive dismissal ? Other organizations have introduced a 2 - tier model to allow or both Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Assistants to work within the organization.

Is it a wrongful dismissal if a person is asked to work in another division of a company and for starters not get briefed on what to do upon arrival at new division job. Then when handing in a overtime report 2 times and having them approved by 2 of the supervisors and on the 3rd overtime sheet they say it's being filled out wrong and use that as grounds of dismissal. The third one was filled out no different then the first two. And they never told me what they expected. The shifts are overnight and they say they don't cover sleeping time and they never ever took the time to explain that to me before I filled out my time sheet. The position was for a house counselor and my main job is a water plant operator.

Can you sue an employer if they fire you for something that you are accused of in your personal life, nothing work related and then found innocent in the court of law?

If a company moves its office from one location to another in the same city, is distance a factor? What kind of timeframe must we provide if we are doing this?

I took time off for an illness, which I had a doctors note for, and ended up taking a couple extra days off than required by doctor, and my employer never contacted me to ask when I was coming back. Then I contacted them and they told me that I said I quit, and they had to move on and give my position to someone else?