#wrongful dismissal

[gwydionmisha]

Professor and ex-gay porn star wins unfair dismissal lawsuit against university

Italian professor Ruggero Freddi has won a lawsuit against his university after claiming he was fired due to his past as a gay porn star.

[tamansinghlaw]

Got called into a random meeting. HR was already sitting there. handed an envelope and a number and told to sign by end of week.

Sound familiar?

Here's the thing nobody says out loud in that room: that number is what your employer wants to pay you. Not what you're actually owed under Ontario law.

If you were let go with zero warning, pressured to sign fast, or told it was "for cause" with no real explanation, you might be leaving real money on the table. And once you sign, it's basically impossible to undo.

wrote up the 6 signs your severance offer is lower than it should be, plus what actually counts as cause (spoiler: way less than employers act like it does) 👇

[full breakdown here]

[tamansinghlaw]

Fired in Toronto? That severance number they handed you isn't the final word

Most termination offers show the legal minimum, not what you're actually owed under Ontario law. If you were let go without warning, pressured to sign fast, or told it's "just restructuring", you might be leaving real money on the table.

I broke down the 7 warning signs to check before you sign anything 👇

Read the full breakdown

[tamansinghlaw]

Wrongful Dismissal in Toronto: First 48 Hours

That first hour after you're let go is a blur. What you do next matters, starting with not signing anything right away. HR often pushes for a same-day signature, but once you sign, you usually give up your right to challenge it later, even if you were owed more.

Your offer may only cite the ESA minimum, about one week per year of service, capped at eight weeks, when Ontario courts often award much more. Hold off posting publicly, and talk to a lawyer before deciding anything.

Read the full post on Medium

[demerarawaves]

Prison officer sues State for salaries, benefits after sacked for "breach of ministerial instructions"

Mr Amias Benjamin A former Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, who said he was dismissed for “breach of ministerial instructions”, has sued the State, seeking his reinstatement and the payment of salaries and other benefits, according to court documents filed in the High Court. Thirty-seven-year-old Amias Alec Benjamin says in a Statement of Claim filed on January 1, 2025 that he was…

Prison officer sues State for salaries, benefits after sacked for "breach of ministerial instructions"

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

30 year old gets fired for “drinking” on the job…it was NON-ALCOHOLIC. boss says the drinking age is 21….he’s 30!,,,They infantilized him and his 40 yo coworker!!!!

These are crap jobs with pathetic “bosses” whose only joy in life is torturing minimum wage workers and finding dumb excuses to fire them.

fuck 7/11 and fuck corporate slavery!!!!

[ullaw]

Fired Without Cause

Contact our experienced Dismissal Lawyer Mississauga & Employment lawyer Mississauga team to fight for you. If you feel you were wrongfully Fired Without Cause, it can affect your future prospects and your financial situation.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DOCTOR THREATENED TO 'GET HIM', IS CLAIM," Toronto Star. January 17, 1934. Page 3. --- Owen Sound Hospital Head, Says Webb Promised Orange Order Would Act ---- Special to The Star Owen Sound, Jan. 17. - First witness to-day in Dr. Gordon Webb's suit against Owen Sound General and Marine hospital, J. R. McLinden, hospital board chairman, testified that when Dr. Webb had been notified of his dismissal, Dr. Webb had declared: "I'm going to the Orange Order about this. I'll get you through the Orange Order." Dr. Webb charges wrongful dismissal.

Mr. McLinden is a Roman Catholic. Witness said Dr. Webb was hired on approval and several weeks later was retained on an indefinite hiring agreement at $60 a week.

J. M. Godfrey: "He was head of the X-ray department from July, 1929, until the middle of August, 1932?"

"Yes."

A statement of earnings of the X- ray department during Dr. Webb's employment showed an excess of receipts over expenses of $7.900, receipts being at the rate of about $7,800 a year.

"The doctors complained of Dr. Webb's treatment of tonsilitis and goitre by X-ray."

"Yes. but I thought that if these treatments would save patients operations and perhaps cure them, they should be allowed. The hospital board passed a resolution, despite the opposition of the doctors, permitting Dr. Webb to give treatments."

Mr. McLinden told of differences over holding X-ray department receipts. Witness said Dr. Webb objected to new rules, because he felt they reflected on his honesty. The hospital head complained that Dr. Webb was untidy in the X-ray room and smoked while attending patients.

That she had been cured of tonsilitis and goitre by Dr. Webb's X-ray treatments in spite of the opposition of her own physician to her taking such treatments, was the evidence of Mrs. J. H. van Overbeek to-day on behalf of Dr. Webb.

"Dr. Howey was urging me to have an operation, but I wanted to avoid it." Mrs. van Overbeek testified. "He would not give me permission to take the X-ray treatments for goitre. I am now completely cured and am enjoying the best of health in my life."

Dr. Webb, recalled on his own behalf, cited instances to show that he had been right in his differences of opinion on diagnosis of several patients, referred to in yesterday's evidence by several doctors.

Mrs. van Overbeek said she had been a patient of Dr. Richard Howey and had been suffering from tonsilitis and a serious goitre.

"In 1929 Dr. Howey told me to go to bed for three months. My tonsils were bad and he wanted to remove them. I was trying to avoid an operation, I had heard of so many unsuccessful ones. In 1932 I heard of successful treatments for tonsilitis and goitre by Dr. Webb."

"What was Dr. Howey's attitude?"

"I pleaded with him to give me his consent to take these X-ray treatments, but he definitely refused. Finally Dr. Howey consented to have me take treatments for tonsilitis and the hospital board permitted Dr. Webb to treat me for goitre."

Claims Complete Cure "What was the result?" "I felt better almost at once and finally my tonsil ailments and my goitre were both completely cured."

"Have you had any recurrence?"

"Absolutely not. I have never had such good health in my life."

Charges Deliberate Lying "Dr. Bell was deliberately lying," declared Dr. Webb, when recalled, referring to the difference between Dr. Bell's recollection of an X-ray report and the document itself.

Judge Morley: "That's your opinion."

Dr. Webb: "Well, he was mistaken, anyway."

Witness said Dr. Charles Gaviller disagreed with him on the diagnosis of a boy. "We called in Dr. Mc- Phedran of Toronto and his examination confirmed my diagnosis." he stated.

Witness told how, X-raying a patient for Dr. H. G. Murray, he deep-seated abscess. probing, told him had reported a Dr. Murray, after his report was wrong.

"I told Dr. Murray he hadn't probed deep enough. He said: 'This is just like your other reports, but he probed more deeply and found matter."