Fired in Alberta, More than Termination & Severance Pay

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Being fired from your job in Calgary, or elsewhere in Alberta, tends to be exceedingly stressful, especially when it comes to understanding the termination offer that is presented by your former employer. Unless you are fired for cause, your termination letter will typically contain a monetary offer of severance pay, a component part of which is termination pay in lieu of notice as determined by the Alberta Employment Standards Code. Unfortunately, for most fired employees in Calgary, and throughout Alberta, these numbers don't present the entire picture of what is owed to employees, especially those employees that having been working for the same company for several years or longer. Instead, these terms, severance pay and termination pay in lieu of notice, fit nicely into a generic termination letter that focuses those employees upon these two specific calculations to the exclusion of all else, which is extremely detrimental for most fired employees.

Nevertheless, that is the entire focus of almost every discussion and analysis for employees that are fired, terminated without cause or laid off, consisting of termination pay in lieu of notice as determined by the Alberta Employment Standards Code (sec. 54 - 64), and supplemented by common law severance pay, which is calculated on the basis of various employment factors (with estimated calculations oftentimes available online using 'severance pay calculators'). If that is all that you are looking at, than in all likelihood the calculations of termination pay and severance pay will be undervalued and other components of your termination payout will have not even been included. And the financial significance of these oversights can be enormous, nonetheless, that is the outcome of focusing upon those aspects that your former employer has made the focal point in their termination letter.

Instead, you need to make the time to have a proper assessment of your personal situation when you are fired and not rely upon what either you, your employer or anyone else thinks is correct, and especially not what you've previously read on the Internet. And that is the purpose of our confidential complimentary assessments, to provide you with the full picture specific to your individual circumstances. Because in our professional estimation, there are enormous problems for employees fired in Alberta, which clearly includes most employees fired from medium and large companies, as well as unionized employees. If anything, the fact that you were employed by a larger company, especially a publicly-traded company, or that you had union representation, means that you really need to speak with us, since this is where definite problems exist and those employees are being hurt financially.

So, if you've been fired, terminated, laid off or otherwise lost your job, and want to understand what you are properly due from your former employer, contact our law firm in strict confidence to schedule your complimentary one-on-one meeting and learn how we can look to secure the payout that you rightfully deserve. We can be contacted at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com or 403-400-4092.

For your Free Confidential Case Evaluation call 403-400-4092 or chris@neufeldlegal.com