Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act, 2009 (EPFNA)
- Section 1 – Interpretation
- Section 2 – Acting as recruiter
- Section 3 – Application
- Section 4 – Separate persons treated as one entity
- Section 5 – No contracting out
- Section 6 – Civil proceedings not affected
- Section 7 – Prohibition against charging fees
- Section 8 – Prohibition against cost recovery by employers
- Section 9 – Prohibitions against taking, retaining property
- Section 10 – Prohibitions against reprisal
- Section 11 – Duty to provide documents to foreign nationals
- Section 12 – Director’s duty to publish documents
- Section 13 – Director’s authority to publish names of offenders
- Section 14 – Employer’s duty to keep records
- Section 15 – Recruiter’s duty to keep records
- Section 16 – Prohibition re: Record keeping
- Section 17 – Restricted application of ss. 18, 19
- Section 18 – Director’s liability to repay fees, etc.
- Section 19 – Indemnification, etc., of directors
- Section 20 – Complaints
- Section 21 – Effect of filing complaint
- Section 22 – Meetings required by employment standards officer
- Section 23 – Settlement
- Section 24 – Authority to make orders
- Section 25 – Time limits on recovery
- Section 26 – Refusal to issue order
- Section 27 – Notice of contravention
- Section 28 – Limitation period re: orders, notices of contravention
- Section 29 – OLRB review of order, etc.
- Section 30 – OLRB review of notice of contravention
- Section 31 – General provision respecting the board
- Section 32 – Prescribed arrangements re: collective agreements
- Section 33 – Powers and duties of director
- Section 34 – Powers and duties of employment standards officers
- Section 35 – Investigation and inspection powers
- Section 36 – Warrants
- Section 37 – Prohibitions re: investigations and inspections
- Section 38 – 43 -Posting of notices, service documents, collections, general offence, limitation period, prosecution, onus in prosecution for reprisal
- Section 44 – Additional orders re: Reprisals, property
- Section 45 – Additional orders re: Other contraventions
- Section 46 – Offence re: Directors' liability
- Section 47 – Offence re: Permitting offence by corporation
- Section 48-50 – Where prosecution may be heard, copy constitutes evidence, regulations
Updated: June 15, 2022
Published: July 19, 2018