YES YOU HAVE LEGAL RIGHTS TO ASK FOR EVERYTHING YOU DON'T RECIEVE THAT WERE PROMISED TO YOU!!! Go find a lawyer today and explain your problem. THe court houses and community assistance centres around toronto should be able to tell you if you have any case(You do 100% if you signed a contract). Small claims court you can fill out a form and have a letter sent to Tarion tomorrow for your lost wages. I think small claims is anything under $5,000 and I don't know your contract agreement, so it's all up to you... lol, if you lived in the states you can make up so many bullsh!t stories, I wish I could file for mental bereavement in Canada I'd be a millionaire.
As for how my ex-boss gipped me... read if you want to below.
I worked upwards of 100 hours a week, and he was having staffing problems so he started doing the paper work full time and working on the floor.
He'd give me my cheque than tell me he was going to give me my pay stub to show my deductions, hours, and over time. He NEVER gave me an yearly breakdown of my pay. I was working 7 days a week from early morning to night with a long lunch in between so I could exercise.... So I wasn't always thinking straight. He wasn't always around when I was thinking straight... the floor ran the business, we made the deals, we called for contracts, we arranged for meeting times, among other things... We began to wonder what he actualy was doing.
Turns out he was doing drugs, reason he wouldn't show up at times for four days... Once he ran away to Vancouver for two weeks without telling anybody, another time he withdrew all of the money from his bank account and booked a private jet and stayed there for a week until the police found him.
Reason I stayed through his miscomings was because... The job paid great, I made over a grand a week plus food, vehicle, and a VERY social environment. (Made 4 FB's at the job)
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The job went downhill fast after he lost his largest contract "ON MY DAY OFF!!!" and my hours were cut down to 20 a week. I asked for my vacation pay and he called his contract provider and had ten blank return forms shipped to him for his own personal use(He told us he only recieved two of them) I received one, and my accomplice received the other.
Well we went to court to find out what he got from us... turns out he was docking our pay, never paid any taxes, and was splitting our cheques and recombining so he could save even more on taxes before paying us, while charging us the full amount. Bilked about $35,000 a week from all of our cheques...
Since than he's gone bankrupt, the government is going over his papers now, and surprisingly, he was able to transfer ownership of his side ventures over to the care of his brother(smart guy, one of my DJ idols). Apparently, he was so busy and stressed at work because the first 4 years of business he paid no taxes, NONE... and now, we've just found out that he paid none of OUR taxes in the last year either. (My friend got a call from a collection agency telling him he owes $24,000 for tax evasion and his account is now accumulating interest at 8% per month)
We've all got a class action settlement case against him right now...