Ontario’s Ministry of Labour published a news release in late May alerting the public that a Toronto businessman and his private school were fined $410,000 for failing to comply with orders to pay wages.

At the time, those fines were already two weeks past due with the courts.

Anchuan Jiang and his company Ontario International College were convicted under the Employment Standards Act (ESA) in March for not paying nearly $185,000 in wages owed to 14 employees as ordered. On top of the fines, there was also a 25 per cent victim surcharge. Both were supposed to be paid in Toronto’s provincial offences court by May 12.

But they weren’t.

As of last week, Jiang hadn’t paid a cent of the $580,730 in fines and surcharges, according to Toronto’s court services division.

  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    If you look at who is doing the work it’ll give you a clue.

    Most of them were international students who’d recently graduated or other newcomers working their first job in Canada.

    Getting a job when your first language isn’t English is hard. It’s also hard when all of your references might not speak English, are half a world away, and you don’t really have a “network” in Canada. You might be willing to put up with a lot of shit in order to have some work history in Canada.