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I was given termination notice of 6 months. I've been with the company for 7 years and they are a severance paying company. I told HR my intent to resign during the statutory notice period. I did this and provided the 2 weeks notice with my last day falling into the last 7 weeks of the written notice. This severing my employment under section 63 1 e of the of the ESA. My question is, is the day I submit the letter of resignation the effective date or is it my last working day that is the effective date? If it is the latter, I did this correctly to still retain the right to severance. Another question, since my employment would still be severed on what would have been my last working day had I worked the entire notice period (section 63 3 of the ESA), will the company owe severance 7 days after that date or 7 days after my last working day? Thanks

I've been with the same employer for 18 years and in a commisioned sales role for the past 3 years. Prior to that in a salaried roles. At the end of Aug I had a discussion in regards to performance. On September 26 I was issued a letter from HR for non-performance stating that if a certain sales target is not met by Nov 30th I may be terminated for cause. Do I need to sign this letter? Also, would termination with cause result in severance. Thank you.

Employer disabled email address 6 months into medical leave. What is the expectation around staying in contact without email access, which thus far had been the only used method of communication. There was no warning, and now I’m unsure of my employment status. Another colleague on a long term medical leave still has email access.

If I was laid-off over a year ago, and not called back, is it tantamount to being fired, and do I then qualify for severence pay? I'm an hourly-wage-earning carpenter .

Hi I was placed on a Leave Of Absence in December of 2021 for non compliance with the mandates at the time. I was a unionized hospital housekeeper since 2008 before being put on a LOA and was denied all Employment Insurance when let go because of the "voluntary" LOA (despite how Involuntary it was) that was on my record. That employer has just left me a message recalling me back to duty with a start date less than a week away. But referred to us as being laid off not on LOAs. At no point were we notified of being laid off or given any kind of written notice of such. All of our paperwork states we were on an LOA. I tried numerous times to reach out to the company during my LOA to no avail, no response of any kind in return. My question I guess would be, Are they able to change that status without any notice to the employee? And, Can they legally even recall us back after almost 3 years? Thank you in advance Nicole