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I resigned after an emotional situation from my job. The owner told me that he would love if I could reconsider and I could have my job back. I decided that I wanted to stay after the offer was open and I reflected. The company did not want to give me my job back and they told HR that taking my position back was never offered. I sent her the message that the owner sent me and after I shared that I would look into taking legal action, the company decided to accept my retraction of resignation. However, my position was contingent on doing weekly performance meetings. The owners said they would be checking in closely on my sales at the store, and other duties within my Store Manager responsibilities. I felt that this was unfair and very stressful to have to do these weekly meetings. Especially when I never gave them a reason to worry about my performance and worked very hard at my job. I decided that after this made me very uncomfortable and I reinstated my resignation. I felt like they used my resignation against me to punish me. Do I have any case that I can pursue here?

I have been working remote for the past 5 years because of covid but now my work wants me to return to the office. They have said that a failure to return to work in the office for partial weeks and eventually full time will be considered just cause for termination and I will get zero severance. Should I be getting severance and they are just trying to scare me off?

Why do I work 50 hrs a week but only get paid for 40 hrs.? Is it because I am on salary?

Last Friday I had a meeting with a company lawyer. I was informed they had video of me stealing product and was fired. After the meeting I went back to work to get proof I had not stolen. I showed the proof to the lawyer and was told the firing was withdrawn and I could go back to work. How can they fire me with wrong information? Do I have any recourse in this situation?

I’m a truck driver. I have been trying to get bereavement pay from my employer. They say they don’t have to pay it, because they are provincially regulated. The company I work for is an agency. The work is contracted out from another company, and the agency pays us. I have been working for this agency for almost three years. Some of our drivers who work for the agency go across the border into the United States. My understanding of the Canada Labour Code is that if you go across provincial or international borders you are federally regulated, and obligated to pay three days bereavement pay. The agency that pays me, definitely goes across an international border. The company that contracts the work out to the agency, ships their products all over the world.