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I have been worked as permanent employee for 3 year and 11 months. Currently I got lay off from my company since my company business downsized. My question is should I entitled to compensation? How to count the compensation?

If I am in a private school for 24 years, and each year it is a 10 month contract, does the three month probation stand each year, or just the first year?

I am a small business owner with 3 employees. 1 employee is currently on maternity leave and returning in 3 months. Prior to taking her leave, she started to perform sub-par and started to miss work days and coming late to work. She was notified about this multiple times. The temp worker doing her work now is working out well and fully focused on the tasks. I know that I have a legal obligation to provide the job back to the employee on maternity leave, but I am concerned that the tardiness, absences, and lack of work focus will return due to having her 2nd child. As an employer, what can I do to get ready for this possibility? I am prepared to allow her to return to work, but have a very small window of patience if this behaviour continues.

I am a dependant contractor in the pest control industry, I can not work for other pest control companies. The problem is the owner ran into financial problems due to his fourth divorce. He then hired hourly workers and basically put me out of work. I have been with the company 20 years and my pay has gone from 45k to 10k in the past 2 years! What can I do? I have had a few problems in the past and took steps to correct these however he still brings them up to support his actions but never let me go!?

I am 49 years professional tailor working for last 19 years with my employer for last few years the manager doing anything to make me quit the job I did complaint to my regional manager and to my VP zone and to the HR on and off the manager change her attitude and few months later back to her nasty attitude with her degrading comments and all kind of verbal harassment so many tailors Quit honestly I don't know what to do is it her or my employer want to Quit my job I need help