Fired For Just Cause (Allegedly) by the Bank
Neufeld Legal P.C. can be reached by telephone at 905-616-8864 / 403-400-4092 or email Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
When your banking career has been abruptly ended with your employer firing you for "just cause", while presenting the bank's version of "the facts" that is supported by a heavily slanted investigation, how do you fight those allegations (whether or not they are accurate)? Although addressing those allegations is important, Canadian bank employees have too often made the mistake of focusing almost exclusively on this single aspect of their employment relationship and it has come at a tremendous financial cost. Instead, as is our professional position, fired bank employees need to look beyond the bank's allegations, and address the totality of their bank employment when responding to the bank's termination letter citing "termination for cause".
Being fired from your bank job allegedly "with cause" can be a very stressful event, with the bank hoping that you take no serious responsive action. By presenting the allegations against yourself in the starkest terms, indicating that the bank had conducted a thorough investigation and has come to its conclusion after serious deliberation, they hope to curtail any pushback. And with the imposing power and weight of these multi-billion dollar financial institutions, supported by massive human resources and legal departments, challenging a bank employer would appear exceedingly daunting. Especially, when bank employees have been led to believe that the bank is going to argue vigorously in support of their interpretation of the alleged facts supporting your firing.
Yet, it is that power and confidence that has made the bank’s particularly vulnerable, in our professional estimation. Such that being fired from your bank job, allegedly for cause, should not stop you from taking action, regardless of the allegations or the seriousness of those allegations. For Canadian banks and their lawyers are overly focused on those actions when it comes to employees being terminated for cause and thereby denying them any end of employment pay (termination pay, severance pay, wages in lieu of notice). And fired bank employees have for too long been drawn into this narrow focus, which in our professional estimation has been a serious mistake, such that irrespective the allegations, every fired bank employee in Canada needs to look beyond their former employer’s contentions and consider the totality of their employment.
For when it comes to employment with Canada’s major banks, their own publicly-available documentation supports looking beyond their self-serving termination letter and the allegations depicted therein. Because looking beyond the bank’s stated reason for firing you with "just cause", will expose the bank to its own employment vulnerabilities and enable you to fight back on a more level playing field. This is important when going against the power and the might of Canadian bank employers, to get money that you are legally entitled to.
If your bank employment has been abruptly ended, especially where the bank is alleging that you are fired for cause, you should seek out knowledgeable legal counsel, irrespective of the bank's allegations. Instead of placing your faith in the bank's self-serving reasons and limited interpretation of the law, contact our law firm to schedule a confidential initial consultation with a bank employment lawyer, by telephone at 905-616-8864 or 403-400-4092, or via email at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com.
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