Your employer may state that you have been terminated for just cause.  This means that you have done something so seriously wrong that the employer is justified in terminating your employment without any prior notice or compensation.  If the employer is correct, you will not be entitled to any compensation arising out of the termination of your employment.

However, there is a strict legal onus on the employer to prove that you have been terminated for just cause.

For more information on examples of Just Cause, please select from the list below:

Dishonesty

Absenteeism and Lateness

Insubordination

Misconduct

Incompetence

"Frustration"

If you are able to overcome suggestions by an employer that you have been terminated for just cause, or that your employment relationship has been legally frustrated, then your employment has been terminated without just cause, and you have a right to compensation. Click here, to see what your rights are as an employee terminated without just cause.