{"data":{"cache":"2025-11-26 19:28:16","id":1005968,"previous_administration_flag":0,"assets":null,"contacts_custom":null,"contacts_default":null,"contacts":"<p><strong>Media Relations<\/strong><br \/>Communications Branch<br \/><a href=\"mailto:mlitsdmedialine@ontario.ca\">mlitsdmedialine@ontario.ca<\/a><\/p>","content_title":"Toronto-based Company and Its Director Fined $410,000 for Failure to Pay Wages","clean_title":"Toronto-based Company and Its Director Fined $410,000 for Failure to Pay Wages","content_subtitle":null,"content_lead":"<p><span><span><span><strong>Convicted:<\/strong> Ontario International College Inc.\/ College International De L&rsquo;Ontario Inc., 16 Wellebourne Cres., Toronto, Ontario<strong> <\/strong>and <span>Anchuan Jiang, the director of the corporation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","content_body":"<p><span><span><strong>Location of Workplace:<\/strong> <span><span>3550 Victoria Park Ave, North York, ON.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span><span><strong>Description of Offence:<\/strong> Ontario International College Inc. failed to comply with orders to pay wages issued by an employment standards officer (ESO) under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/00e41#BK255\">section 103(8)<\/a> of the <em>Employment Standards Act, 2000<\/em>, which is an offence under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/00e41#BK301\">section 132<\/a> of the Act. Anchuan Jiang failed, as the corporation&rsquo;s director, to comply with a director order to pay issued by an ESO under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/00e41#BK258\">section 106<\/a> of the Act, which is an offence under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/00e41#BK305\">section 136<\/a> of the Act. <\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span><span><span><span><strong>Date of Offence:<\/strong> June 17, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span><span><span><span><strong>Date of Conviction:<\/strong> March 28, 2025<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span><span><span><span><strong>Penalty Imposed:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><ul>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>Following guilty verdicts in the Provincial Offences court in Toronto, Justice of the Peace Ruby Wong fined Ontario International College Inc. $270,000 and its director, Anchuan Jiang, $140,000. The provincial prosecutors for both cases were Dave Simpson and Alexsis Qi.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul>\t<li><span><span><span><span>The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge on the defendants, as required by the <em>Provincial Offences Act<\/em>. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span><span><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><ul>\t<li><span><span><span>An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development determined the <span><span>Ontario International College Inc. failed to pay 14 employees for wages owed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span>Between October 2019 to October 2020, an employment standards officer issued orders for the corporation to pay the unpaid wages, totaling almost $185,000.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>However, the corporation<\/span><\/span> did not comply, nor did it apply for a review of the orders to pay.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>Subsequently, the officer issued a director order to pay to the corporation&rsquo;s director, Anchuan Jiang. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>Mr. Jiang also did not comply with the order, nor did he apply for a review.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>Following this, the ministry took the corporation and its director to court for<\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span> failing to comply with the respective order to pay wages. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\t<li><span><span><span><span><span>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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>","default_contacts_included_flag":null,"keywords":"news;press;media;health and safety;court;bulletin","language":"en","media_assets":null,"lead_ministry":{"id":242,"ministries_timeframes_id":6,"acronym":"MLITSD","acronym_fr":"MTIFDC","featured_story_boost":100000,"name":"Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development","name_abbreviated":"Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development","name_fr":"Minist\u00e8re du Travail, de l\u2019Immigration, de la Formation et du D\u00e9veloppement des comp\u00e9tences","name_fr_abbreviated":"Travail, Immigration, Formation et D\u00e9veloppement des comp\u00e9tences","created_at":"2025-03-19T20:25:45.000000Z","deleted_at":null,"updated_at":"2025-03-19T20:25:45.000000Z","pivot":{"release_id":1005968,"ministry_id":242,"lead_ministry_flag":1}},"partner_ministries":[],"ministry_acronym_opposite":"mtifdc","ministry_id":242,"ministry_acronym":"MLITSD","ministry_name":"Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development","ministry_abbreviated":"Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development","preview_expires":null,"quickfacts":null,"quotes":[],"regions":[],"release_date_time":"2025-05-28 16:15:00","release_date_time_formatted":"May 28, 2025","release_id_translated":1005968,"release_type_id":2007,"release_type_name":"Court Bulletin","release_type_label":"court","release_crossreferences_resources":"","release_resources":null,"slug":"toronto-based-company-and-its-director-fined-410000-for-failure-to-pay-wages","slug_translated":"une-societe-de-toronto-et-son-administrateur-recoivent-une-amende-de-410-000-dollars-pour-non-paiement-de-salaires","status_type_id":3002,"streams":null,"owners":[],"tags":[{"label":"news","value":71},{"label":"press","value":73},{"label":"media","value":74},{"label":"health and safety","value":75},{"label":"court","value":76},{"label":"bulletin","value":77}],"topics":[{"label":"Courts, justice and law","description":"Ontario\u2019s laws and related information about our legal system, emergency services, the Ontario Provincial Police and victim services.","link":"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/courts-justice-and-law","value":10}],"unformatted_slug":"toronto_based_company_and_its_director_fined_410000_for_failure_to_pay_wages","unformatted_slug_translated":"une_societe_de_toronto_et_son_administrateur_recoivent_une_amende_de_410_000_dollars_pour_non_paiement_de_salaires","release_distribution_id":5001,"release_language_distribution":null,"distributed":true,"additional":{"content_notes":null,"content_location":null,"content_date":null,"content_time":null,"content_livestream_url":null,"content_epk_url":null,"content_nr_url":null,"content_crossreferences":[],"created_by":null,"content_assets":null,"content_assets_formatted":""}}}