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I've been terminated for no reason after working for 4 years and 3 months , I'm a sales floor supervisor at work they are offering me a termination pay for 5 weeks but I still think it's not fair they just hired new supervisors 2 in total and the position still posted on line last management meeting my store manager promised that they are not firing anyone just because they are hiring what can I do or my options ?
can i still question my termination of work more or less than 2 years ago, i did not report cause of mixed adviced from different people, that made me confused and depressed untill now. i just browsed and found your web site.
1) I was terminated from my job less than two years ago, A) i injured my lower back at home, due to wrong lifting of bag of cement. B) Had an questionable modified work of less than a month (still working in the company) not knowing that there is no specific days of modification of work from my doctor (questioned by the supervisor and the manager) and asking for a revised order of the physician himself. ( specific dates of when my lower back injury will healed????) C) the physician (himself) was on 2weeks vacation. D) i spoke to my ,manager during the meeting if i get the revised ortder of the doctor, when can i go back to work (for me my self still in pain and forcing my self to go back to normal of activity of daily living... E) the manager verbally ordered to me that im not gonna go back to work without the revised order of my ordering physician (himself, whom went for two weeks vacation that time. 3) I did not report to my employer because my manager spoke to me already firmly that im not gonna go back to work without those written orders from my physician. 4) i received letter of termination before i see my physician. 5) i went to severe depression bec of job lost . 5) more or less 3 yrs in the company. 6) the operations manager promise us everybody from the company that he will gonna give us increase next year 2014, ( i was on paternal leave 6 months, before going back to work on last May 2014 a month before i accidentally injured my lower back. i heared that my colleagues from work receives their salary increase whom promise to us by the operations manager , but he was terminated of undetermine reasons? so i asked the manager whom our opretions manager before. about my increase after goimg back to work from paternity leave (6 months) i went back to work maybe 1 month before my injury asking about the increase that the former operations manager promises to everybody. but it was denied by the manager, he said you just came back from work... so i asked him again after 1 moth or less about the increase bec all of my colleagues in the company teases me that i am the only one who got no increase... knowing tghat it was granted by the former operations manager bec of sacrifices of overtime during the busy month of october - december.2013 before i started my paternity leave.
I want to terminate a staff still in probation period. How can I address this?
If you have given an employee correct notice that their position is being eliminated in the future, can you lay them off temporarily due to lack of available work during part of the notice period.
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