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Originally Posted by ernie
You were talking "at will" employment. Given, as you say Canada doesn't truly have at will employment, I responded from the country that does have at will employment and what "at will" really means in practice....not what people think it means. Which is the country I'm in. There is nothing incorrect in what I said.
And I believe you are wrong on not getting your job back in Canada. Having been a manager in Nova Scotia for example if you are wrongly dismissed you can indeed go through the Labour Standard Division and ask for your job back provided you had more than 3 months under your belt. I suspect most if not all other provinces are the same. I don't believe I said you could get reinstated without just cause.
And no I don't think the company needs to give different advice to any managers in any country. We're a fortune 500 company constantly at the top of the ranks for employee satisfaction and haven't missed a dividend payment for over a half a century (with no drop backs and only hikes). What we do is most definitely the correct way to do things to have a productive and happy work force which makes for a healthy company.
BUt this is off topic....I believe the person in question was justifiably punished.
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You just happened to catch me online. A couple of quick notes: I was never discussing "at will" employment. I believe it was another poster who mistakenly applied that term to employment law in Canada (an understandable mistake).
With respect to reinstatement for non-Union employees in Canada, judges simply do not have the authority to order this in Canada. I suppose we will to just agree to disagree.
Lastly, if you are in the U.S., then my little rant about employment law in Camada was irrelevant to you. My snide remarks about your company's human resources department was a bit childish. Sorry about all that.