So this may be confusing, but my BF works for a roofing company and needs help. He has worked for this scumbag of a man for two years. He takes the winters off to snowboard as he has other streams of income along with claiming ei because you literally can’t roof when it’s snowing/icy so he gets laid off around Dec. he didn’t have any issues with this last year.
This year, he told boss man he’s not coming back after the winter as he got a contract for a better job. He is second most senior on the team and carries most of the weight on site. Now Bossman MAD because he won’t have his underpaid mule next year. He’s threatened to “resubmit” his ROE to state my BF has QUIT instead of being laid off (they were told mid Dec they were laid off, ROEs sent in) because my boyfriend doesn’t want to show up to a DANGEROUS under the table shift for cash and potentially screw his ei. So his boss is instead threatening to ruin his ei FOR him if he doesn’t show up to any future cash shifts this winter.
What can he do????? Now he’s going to have to tell ei he’s accepting cash or possibly get fucked for that. But he doesn’t want to work for this man anymore. But seems unable to leave??? HELP!
Our only idea was to threaten with reporting to the labour board and bossman literally said “go for it”. What would we even tell them?
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EDIT: there are COUNTLESS other things this boss does that are completely unethical and unfair. This is just one aspect of his bullshit.