Thursday, July 16, 2009

signs of the times

I have discovered many of our large corporations truly act dishonourably towards their employees.
Take Trader Corporation, that let go without cause (an agreed fact from court filings Provincial Court of Alberta action no 0990300111) a single mom with a brain damaged child. They let her go without cause, her employment record unblemished- her only sin from what we can see is her earnings went from under $3000.00 a month to just over $8,000.00 a month in just over a year.
Is that not what sales people are supposed to do?
The corporation does not argue they let her go without cause-- here is the kicker- todate over 2 years they have no paid one cent in severance, holiday pay or notice.
This lady has to take this huge corporation to court- on her very modest salary now simply to get paid for work she has already done- never mind notice and severance.
It has also come up that this company recently fired all its western based sales people only to turn around and offer a few of them their jobs back at 50% of the salaries paid.
Hmmm..... does make me think that maybe unions have a point
Wonder if the shareholders know this? Wonder if upper management had to take a 50% reduction in pay?
All is well in corporate Canada- if you are born rich.

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