Going to be rather vague but I'm just looking to see if this is all legal or if I have any course of actions if my employer decides to fire me. This is also Work From Home.
-Hired for 7 weeks training, 3 weeks in they changed it to 4 weeks and that last week seemed to be rushed training for an entirely different role. The previous 3 weeks training covered some basics of the programs used but overall taught us things I haven't dealt with a single time in nearly two months.
-I was using programs outside of work hours to study, HR contacted me about it and said 'please do not study outside of work hours for liability reasons, if you feel you need more training ask the trainer or contact us here at HR'.
-When training was reduced to 4 weeks and I felt rushed and improperly trained before I hit production, I contacted HR about this and they basically said 'that's the same training you would have received regardless of the change in training time. If you have any improvements for training please send us an e-mail of things we can discuss with our team moving forward.' So I did the run around, I sent them detailed information regarding the training and what I think could be done better. All they did was basically 'k thx bye'.
For reference the training material is incomplete, what was taught by the teacher is not available for review. We have the option to 'review' documents but it's basically copy pasted starting documents on every single section with no detailed information. It's basically slide shows of blank pages for 'fill in the answers' that must have been meant for working at the office and doing study work in person because there's no information there. To top that off there's supposed to be video guides as well with the courses. 30% of the courses have video guides, mostly for the role we don't actually do. Some of the videos don't even play and the rest just don't have any videos attached at all.
When I brought up my issues with training I asked them repeatedly to address the training material being broken and incomplete. 2 months in nothing has been updated. They are relying entirely on crash and burn work scenarios where if you get it wrong in production oh fucking well. Then you get sat down by supervisors to rag you out about doing things wrong you weren't even trained on.
Back to the meeting with HR.
In this same meeting with HR regarding the rushed inadequate training I brought up the fact that I am being paid 3 dollars less than my coworkers because I live in a different province. I asked to be compensated equally but that was basically summed up as 'yeah that's why we hired you out of province for cheap labor, I'll ask the bosses if they'll give you a raise equal to your coworkers but don't count on it.'
-Now we're into production. Because I did what I could to improve myself by pestering every single sup for every single answer every single day I encountered a problem I have risen I guess somewhat above the rest of the new hires. Now they want me to take on more responsibility and handle more intense situations with customers.
I said not so politely but politely enough in my opinion that if the company doesn't want to pay me equal to my coworkers then I have no reason to take on a bigger role for the company.
This does not seem to be sitting well.
Now they are using the angle of 'we are just trying to finish your training and get you filled out for the role you were hired.'.
But that has to be bullshit. It was their choice to reduce the training time… At this point I consider this a promotion or at the least added responsibility that should come with a pay increase. A promotion I should be legally allowed to decline if I don't feel fairly compensated for the increase in work load?
I feel like if I don't take the extra roles on they'll fire me for whatever excuse they come up with and at this point I am standing my ground. I refuse any extra work until at the least I am paid equal to my coworkers.
I am just wondering if I have any ground to stand on here legally speaking if they decide to fire me?
tldr:
-Training reduced from 7 weeks to 4 weeks.
-Training material for review is incomplete, broken and for roles outside my primary job responsibility with little to no material available for my actual main role.
-Paid 3 dollars less than my coworkers and they want to push more roles on me for the same wage. I refused they are coming at me as it's mandatory.
-Reached out to HR about all these issues and they basically ghosted me.
/ If they fire me for some excuse is there anything worth escalating here or are they falling within the Canadian work laws when dicking me around like this?