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can you get the severance offer you were offered even if you decided to take a relocation job offer that did not turn out to be what was promised and you quit cause of stress from the relocation job

can my employer and my union together reduce my pay from pizza cook from $12.25 to $11.35 calling me as pizza maker for same job duties without my consent & without notice? and later terminate me because I went to labour board & human rights tribunal?

I was employed by my husband and his brother's company for 27 years and was let go for personal reasons and was replaced a month later. Am I entitled to severance or termination fee

After receiving few warnings about safety issues I've had at my work I was on my last straw. During my break time I was on my forklift parked and out of the way and turned off as I was finishing up small paperwork. Noticing the time that it was Break time where we got free time for getting drinks, smokes etc. I was sitting on my forklift and sat back with my eyes closed (Not sleeping because saftey issues that were addressed and I understood that) and I hear my manager (Person who has hired me and who has warned me about issues.) Call my name and say good morning. He asks me about what I remember what we talked about (Being the warnings and issues of "Sleeping" on the forklift even though I was stationary and turned off and sitting back relaxing.) I nod my head in agreement and without another split second he just says "We are done." In a way meaning I was fired. To sum it all up I was on break relaxing on my own time on a parked forklift that was turned off and out of the way of any other drivers or people that would need to be doing something. I was no way any kind of hazard to anyone working around me as I took precautions for that. And I wasn't sleeping I was just relaxing on a warm forklift because it was freezing in the warehouse during break time which is not only for me but the temporary workers and other forklift drivers.

I was in a union and wanted to talk to a lawyer about an issue at work and no lawyer would talk to me. They kept telling me to talk to the union but I could not because they were part of the problem Why wouldn't a lawyer talk to me?