In Canada, the first job after graduating from college is generally not easy to find, most companies want experienced skilled hands, and few companies will recruit inexperienced new people.
When looking for a job, although most companies are honest, there are also companies that will make bad things about defaulting on employees' wages and relying on not giving money!
Kevin Li, a 26-year-old who had just graduated from college, got into trouble with being owed wages by Canadian companies.
According to CBC, Xiao Li was hired for a job this year: to help develop a website for a Western dealer in Toronto that sells disinfectant cleaning products. However, after eight weeks of Xiao Li's work, the company only paid half of the salary negotiated during the interview, and owed Xiao Li 3,000 to 4,000 Canadian dollars!
Kevin Li
As a result, Xiao Li didn't even have the money to bear the rent. "It's a pretty big situation for a recent graduate, and without any warning, I can't even afford to pay the rent," Mr. Li said in an interview.
It is reported that the company's turnover rate is very high, it is difficult to get a salary, the payday is often missed, even if it is really paid, the money sent with EMT is not all the salary.
Xiao Li said that he repeatedly pressured the company to pay, but the company found an excuse to postpone it. In the end, it may be because Xiao Li is too insistent, and the company simply fired him!
So Xiao Li went to the media, hoping to get some help. Along with Xiao Li, there was also one of his female colleagues.
Hayley O'Brien, 23, said she was owed at least $1,500 by the company. Because the company refused to provide ROE for her, it was difficult to know the exact, arrears of pay.
海莉（Hayley O'Brien）
The company that owed the two people's wages was reportedly criminal, and its boss, Rob Roche, a 63-year-old Canadian businessman, had long been in the habit of defaulting on the salaries of his employees.
Deborah Faurot, a former employee in B.C., was owed $6,750 in salary by Roche's company in 1995, and nearly 30 years have passed and not a single penny has ever been received.
Rob Roche
Not only was she in arrears of wages, but after Hayley first exposed Roche's company to CBC last December, she was even sued by Roche for defamation, demanding compensation of $164,000! Hayley found a lawyer and sought to withdraw the lawsuit...
When Xiaobian just graduated from college, he also experienced this kind of unfortunate thing of being owed wages.
Xiaobian graduated in 2016, and a month after graduation, he found a job at a company in Toronto. At that time, HR said in the interview that because the company encountered some financial situation, the monthly salary would not be paid until the end of the second month.
This must be a violation of the operation, but Xiaobian felt that it was not a big deal, and it was not easy to find a job, so he stayed.
The company is now empty
The result was tragic.
After Xiaobian joined the company, I heard from my colleagues that the company had been in arrears of wages earlier, but in the end it was made up. When Xiaobian first entered, the company had not paid a salary for several months, and the boss could not find anyone.
Moreover, a few years later, Xiaobian learned that in the same month of his employment, other employees in the company had joined forces to sue the boss to the Ontario Labor Department, asking for arbitration and getting their money back.
CBC was also exposed later, but to no avail
Xiaobian had considered leaving his job during his work, and his friends also persuaded him to stop the loss in time. But the leaders in the company do not know what kind of psychology, all kinds of obstruction, but also threatened to leave now will not get back a penny, and also belittled that the employees who leave every month because they can't get a salary are weak and poor.
Then, from May of that year to the end of November, Xiaobian paid his salary twice, and one of the checks actually jumped out of the ticket.
In the end, Xiaobian really couldn't stand it, chose to launch, and then the company pit Xiaobian again: it should have been the company's benefits that were not lay off employees, but Xiaobian was done by HR and leaders, and chose to resign actively (at that time, I really didn't understand anything, I didn't know anything about EI at all).
The company finally owed a total of more than $7,000 to xiaobian.
But I don't know if it is a blessing in misfortune, two years later, after thinking about it again, Xiaobian still feels that this money cannot be counted like this, although he has also contacted a lawyer before, saying that he can only go to small court, and he was also encouraged by the lawyer to say what "spend money to buy lessons".
So Xiaobian went to the boss to ask for a salary, and it probably took a summer, and almost every day he would go to the boss's other company to ask for money.
Although the money was taken back, the experience was exhausting, and the psychological damage was far greater than the value of these wages.
The colleagues who joined forces to sue the boss to the Labor Agency, including the leaders of the various pit editors, are still waiting.
Official website of the Ontario Department of Labor
The same thing is probably waiting for Hayley and Xiao Li, once they are owed wages in Canada, no matter what means are used, they may face a long-term way to seek wages. Instead of suing companies for procrastination, it is better to file a lawsuit directly through small claims courts.
But once the company declares bankruptcy and the bankruptcy procedure is fully compliant, the bankrupt will be protected by bankruptcy, the debt will be exempted from repayment, and the tragedy can only be the ordinary people who are owed wages.