A former children's educational facility in Cayuga, was fined $142,000, one company director was fined $17,000 and jailed for 60 days, and another director was fined $11,100 for numerous violations of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 in connection with wages owed to former employees.

Glencairn Academy, no longer in operation, owed a total of about $74,000 to 14 former employees who worked for the school sometime between July 1998 and March 2003. The employees filed claims with the Ministry of Labour for unpaid wages. The ministry found the wages were owing and issued five orders to pay for the unpaid wages plus a 10-per-cent administrative fee. The academy and two of its directors failed to voluntarily pay the orders and failed to appeal the orders.

In addition, the court imposed a 25% victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.

...back to 8 September 2005


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Glencairn Academy and two academy directors convicted of employment standards violations

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