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Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act, 2009 (EPFNA)

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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