Unfortunately, the amount of time you have worked there does not have any effect on whether you could be terminated for poor work performance. You could use the length of employment as a method to cast doubt on the reasoning, but in theory if you had been a terrible worker for all nine years and the employer finally decided they had had enough and fired you then it would be legal.


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