WRONGFUL DISMISSAL
Fired from your job?
If you have been fired from your job and you strongly believe that you were fired for no reason other than just being a victim, seek legal advice right away. Because once you have that feeling, there is, perhaps, high chances that you were wrongfully dismissed from your job. In that case, the law provides you the avenue to sue your former employer for various degrees of compensations such as your severance pay, damages for emotional or psychological trauma, benefits and lost of income.
Other avenues that are open for you include the Human Rights where you could prove that the grounds by which you were let go by your employer infringe upon the code. In that instance, the various claims available to you could be sought at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
However, while there are avenues for you to tell your stories and the effects your employer’s action had had on you, you will have to delve into the complex and confusing legislative instruments to make your argument, either in court or the Human Rights Tribunal to make a successful case against the employer who may have the resources to combat your claims with a highly skilled, aggressive lawyer or a paralegal.
Likewise, you need a vibrant, skilled and a strong representative who will battle the useless excuses meant to cover the wrongful act that has seen you and your family suffering various degrees of stress and the financial hardship that you may be suffering now or might be in the soon distant away, threatening your enjoyment of life. Contact Oppong Wiafe Legal Firm to have the representative who possesses that quality to spearhead your interest and fight for your compensations.
CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL
Has your working conditions changed?
Employers have various tactics they use to force employees to resign from the job. This gives them the opportunity to argue that since the employee quit by his or her own volition, they are not entitled to any compensation. In fact the law does not allow a person who has voluntarily resigned from the job to seek financial compensation, unless such agreement had been in place. Knowing this provision, some employers squeeze the employee they do not want till they become afraid or even uncomfortable going to work, which often lead them to resign from their job. This way, the employers take the calculated risk to argue that since the employee has resigned voluntarily, there are no avenues to seek compensation or severance package.
If you believe you were forced to resign or that your conditions of work such as demoted, transferred to a different location you do not like, you must urgently speak to a lawyer or a paralegal (Ontario) to ascertain whether you can claim constructive dismissal to force your employer to pay you your severance package and all benefits you deserve. Call or send Oppong Wiafe Legal Firm a message. We will give you a free consultation to help you determine your status under the law.
HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AT WORK
What consist of Human Right abuses?
If your employer, an agent of the employer denies you a benefit because of your specific identity such as gender, race, color, religion or your sexual orientation, your employer has breached the Human Rights code, which instructs that every person must be accorded the same treatment, respect, dignity and given same benefits irrespective of their gender, race, ethnic identity or their group’s identity.
However, a person among the employees may be given a special treatment that does not necessarily mean that the special treatment accorded that particular person, where others are denied amount to discrimination. This is the case if that person has been disadvantaged by social norms or is part of a group that are disadvantaged merely because of their existing identities; or if they have a disability that requires that special treatment. This is an exceptional case that does not amount to discrimination. But the slippery slope in this case is if someone’s position is taken and given to the other, as this may well lead to a constructive dismissal case.
Some Common Human Rights Abuses at the Workplace
- Pay equity issues – situation where people are paid different amount for same work done. For instance, women at the workplace receive less as payments for the same work done by their male counterparts.
- Employer tells an employee subtly or overtly that she or he is too old to do the kind of job.
- Employer denies an employee the benefits others of the same position enjoy.
- Comments that is meant to demean a person, his race or identity.
- Unwelcoming sexual touching or comments for which an employee is fired for speaking against.
- Employee is fired for his or her religious beliefs or practice.
- Employee is fired because of her pregnancy.
