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I have an employee who has been off work since late 2015 on medical leave and has not returned to work. As of last week, January 2016, this employee has begun working at the competitor without resigning at our establishment. We have given them ample time and opportunity to return to work in there previous status of full time employment of 40 hours. Do we have just cause of terminating their employement with our organization under these circumstances? Do we have an obligation under these circumstances to pay them termination pay? What are our legal rights?

For the past 14 years, 2 of us have received on-call pay every 2 weeks. The yearly total of the pay accumulates to about 9% of our salary. We have asked numerous times to just roll it into our base salary, but each time were told it is easier to keep it as on-call pay. That way it doesn't look like we are getting large merit increases, while no one else is getting any. Now they are talking about taking away this on-call pay. Can they do that and just remove 9% of our income?

I have a seasonal business 9 months of the year My employees are hired on a seasonal temporary contract they are payed off each year if I close my business am I required to pay severence

Are we obligated to pay termination pay to a part time employee?

I worked for company for past 7 years and i was laid off without any notice they just told me its shortage of work and they have to laid me off but problem strted 2 months before that i miss a day of work which i told my aupervisor tommorow when i come to work they suspend me one day i told them they have no rights to do that and i will call labour board to see if they have right to do that 2 months agter they laid me of without notice i didnt get any severence pay or termination notice