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I have an employee we hired in April, who's not getting the job done. The probationary period was 3 months. I am non union, have less than a 2.5 million payroll and 9 staff members. Does this person qualify for severance?

I worked for my mother in law managing a convenience store and I had a breakdown in relationship with her son and I moved out of our marital home 15 minutes away and she fired me and her reason for firing me was because I moved . Is that cause for wrongful dismissal claim?

OUR EMPLOYEE MADE A SUB IN OUR STORE FOR A GIRL WHO SHE DOES NOT LIKE AND SHE LATER TEXTED THIS GIRL "ENJOY THE SPIT BITCH " wE HAVE PROOF OF THIS..CAN WE FIRE HER?

I have an employee who in the beginning was brought over from the Philippians as a caregiver to help with my ill mother. After her passing, we kept her here as we would have liked to have used her services again to help my elderly father. We were paying her from our personal account as she worked as a caregiver. In efforts to keep her in the country and still adhering to the rules of her work visa, we offered her employment in our business, and only have been paying her from our business account since Jan 2015. In recent events, she was in a car accident that with a vehicle that we allowed her to use. She became resentful when she was not entitled to the insurance money that we received to replace the vehicle. She has become disobedient and rude to us. We have not been practising progressive disciplinary actions. I would like to terminate her from our office. Between being a caregiver and working in our office she has been with us for the last 3 yrs. What is the best way to terminate this employee?

I have an employee who has worked with us for over 13 years, employment standards says anything above 8 years or more is only entitled to 8 weeks plus severance, I just wanted to know if they should receive 13 weeks termination pay in stead of 8?