Sunday shifts the employer denied? Worker walks away with a payout
An Ontario car dealership has been ordered to pay a former collision-centre employee more than $8,000 in unpaid wages after the Ontario Labour Relations Board found it could not back up its claims with proper records of hours worked. In a decision released April 24, 2026, Vice-Chair Derek L. Rogers dismissed Serpa Automotive (2016) Corporation's application to overturn an Employment Standards Officer's Order to Pay, citing missing witnesses, missing invoices, and an employment contract riddled with ambiguity. The worker, Valentine Ionescu, resigned without prior notice on July 5, 2024. His salary had been suspended for a period while the parties discussed a possible change in his role to managerial and a change in his hours of work.
The Board also noted that Serpa's application itself was procedurally deficient, having failed to plead the material facts required under the Board's Rules of Procedure. Rogers observed that the application "might have been dismissed without a hearing as there were no facts pled that could be read as making out a case for any order or remedy Serpa identified as its objective," but the matter proceeded after Ionescu agreed to hear the applicant's opening statement before deciding whether to continue.
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