The Ontario International College Inc./ College International De L’Ontario Inc., and its director has been fined $410,000 for failing to pay wages to 14 workers.
Following guilty verdicts in the Provincial Offences court in Toronto, the employer was fined $270,000 while Director Anchuan Jiang was fined $140,000 .
The court also imposed a 25% victim fine surcharge on the defendants, as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development confirmed that the employer failed to pay employees for wages owed.
Between October 2019 to October 2020, an employment standards officer issued orders for the corporation to pay the unpaid wages, totaling almost $185,000. However, the corporation did not comply, nor did it apply for a review of the orders to pay.
The officer also issued a director order to pay to Jiang, who also did not comply with the order. Nor did he apply for a review, according to the Ontario government.
Following this, the ministry took the corporation and its director to court for failing to comply with the respective order to pay wages.
Both defendants were found guilty on all counts and were fined a total of $410,000, plus the victim fine surcharge. This amount does not include the owed wages.
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