Is there any reason an employer wont need to give a contract? Fresh fom Reddit

Hope you can help with this:

My wife and I are fairly new to Canada and she just got a job at a franchise healthy fast food outlet. It's a full time job 30-40 hours per week but no employment contract given, nor has she signed anything.

It's been 2 weeks since she started, and she loves it there, and doesn't want to rock the boat, but the last time she asked, her manager replied on email: 'I don't have anything official in regards to your employment, but I can write a letter to effort your employment with us. Let me know if that would be OK'

That doesn't sound right at all, at least to me. Any advice greatly appreciated?

(Edit - removed company name at my wife's request)

Submitted April 11, 2015 at 09:16PM by southlondon http://ift.tt/1IVf2vE