Fired For Cause: Are you really owed nothing?
Neufeld Legal P.C. can be reached by telephone at 403-400-4092 / 905-616-8864 or email Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
Simply because your former boss purports to terminate you with cause and therefore doesn't provide you with either termination pay or severance pay, that doesn't mean that your former boss was right or that you were not owed money (and we're not limiting money owed to termination pay and severance pay), as these over zealous employers all too often make significant mistakes, especially when it comes to payroll computations in the Canadian workplace.
In truth, there are very few circumstances where a fired employee is owed nothing from their former boss, even where the employee has allegedly been fired for cause, which of itself is a very difficult legal standard to establish. Yet more significantly, when an employer fires an employee 'for cause', and pays them next to nothing on their exit, these situations tend to be very well suited to our distinct legal strategy, which operates at a significant advantage since the employee is not put financially at risk (given the employer's refusal to offer termination pay or severance pay), such that in most circumstances we can undertake a very robust legal strategy and make significant demands of your former employer.
There are also powerful indicators that our own legal strategy is optimally suited to pursuing legal action on behalf on an employee allegedly fired with cause, including: (i) long-term employment, (ii) salaried employment or working on-site [i.e., oil & gas, mining], (iii) working for a large company, including a publicly-traded company, and/or (iv) working in Alberta. Also, government employees (both federal and provincial, especially in Alberta), as well as unionized employees (both federally regulated and provincially regulated, especially Alberta), should consider our legal approach when those employees have been purportedly fired with cause.
Our approach, however, is not for everyone. We have a very specific approach to employee terminations "for just cause", which certain individuals might find too drastic and too aggressive. However, for those individuals who are willling to engage in a serious legal fight, especially where their former employer thought they could get away with providing next to nothing when they were fired, they should seriously consider our non-traditional legal approach. For those individuals whose employment meets our internal criteria to deploy our specialized legal strategy, especially those employed by larger companies (who think they are so strong and powerful to be beyond reproach), our distinct legal approach warrants serious consideration. If this is of interest to yourself, feel free to contact our law firm in strict confidence, by telephone at 403-400-4092 or 905-616-8864, or via email at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com.
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