All recently fired employees should speak with an employment lawyer who can review the file and determine what you are properly entitled to both under the Employment Standards Act and under the common law.

The starting point for your financial entitlements upon being fired is that you are owed 1 week per year of service up to a maximum of 8 weeks. However, these are the minimums that your employer must pay as per the Employment Standards Act. If you want to find out if you could be entitled to a month of pay per year of service, please contact us.

Please review the following simple calculation based on an employee who worked for a company for 5 years and was making $50,000 per year. This is just an example but it properly illustrates what you could be losing if you don’t contact an employment lawyer shortly after being fired. Under the Employment Standards Act you would be entitled to 5 weeks of pay which would be approximately $4,000. If the common law applies, the same employee could be entitled to 20 weeks of pay which would be approximately $19,000.

Why leave so much money on the table and let your previous employer off the hook. Contact an employment lawyer to review your file. It could be the best financial decision you can make. Let a us guide you through these stressful times.

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