serious question: what happens if your company does RTO and instead of quitting, you simply refuse to go in?
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serious question: what happens if your company does RTO and instead of quitting, you simply refuse to go in? do they fire you? do you get severance?
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to elle mundy last edited by [email protected]
@exchgr (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.)
My read would be that if you refuse to follow company policies the company now has a reason to terminate you "for cause", which is legally distinct from terminating an employee for reasons unrelated to their conduct (e.g., mass layoffs).
Termination for cause releases the employer from a bunch of obligations they'd have otherwise, one of which can be paying severance.
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@exchgr depends!
In Ontario, if you can make an argument that your employer has changed the terms of your agreement and that if they fire you for not cooperating they are committing a form of “constructive dismissal,” which is illegal.
This would depend on whether or not the employment agreement signed by the employee has stipulations about work location that shield the employer from.