Impending Layoffs, Terminations, Firing - Preserve your Employment Records
Neufeld Legal P.C. can be reached by telephone at 403-400-4092 / 905-616-8864 or email Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
Your personal employment records are essential to effectively reviewing your termination and severance pay package, so as to insure that you have been fully paid out upon leaving your job, which demands that you take a proactive approach to employment record retention. This includes everything provided to yourself in your capacity as an employee and was provided by your employer for your personal retention (as opposed corporate materials pertaining to its business, including intellectual property and proprietary business information), including job offers, employment contracts, job specifications, pension plan / RRSP contribution information, health benefit and insurance contribution information, workplace policies, letters of promotion, job reviews, pay increases, job recognition letters, changes in employment, layoff notices, reprimands, discipline, pay statements / pay stubs, T4 statements of remuneration paid, vacation / holiday reports, and other workplace communications, including emails discusses employment-related promises (that all too often were not fulfilled) and inappropriate workplace conduct.
As an honest and hard-working employee, you should not be underpaid when you are terminated, fired or laid off, nevertheless, the world that we live in does not necessarily play fairly or pay you all that you should be entitled to. Protecting the financial well being of you and your family is extremely important. As such, knowing what action to take and when to take it can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. What is important in these particular situations is that proper consideration of all the facts and circumstances are taken into account, as is the specifics of the law, and than getting knowledgeable professional advice, which often will include but not necessarily be limited to, the advice of an experienced lawyer who has been apprised of all the facts and circumstances, not only in the workplace but in the broader perspective of your life and future, given the difficult and unexpected negative turns that might arise when you proceed down a certain path. The reality is that every path forward is fraught with danger and uncertainty, although potentially the most dangerous path is not exploring with knowledgeable professional counsel your potential paths forward such that you leave significant money on the negotiating table that you would be rightly entitled to.
Our approach, however, is not for everyone. When we take on layoffs and dismissals by corporate employers, we pursue it very aggressively, attacking their fundamental employment practices. As such, for those individuals who simply want to accept the layoff package and move on, even if it means leaving behind a considerable amount of money, we are probably not the right legal team. For everyone else, especially those employed by larger companies (who think they are so strong and powerful to be beyond reproach), that meet our internal criteria for aggressive employment litigation, we have a unique legal approach that you should seriously consider. 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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