The trucking industry\u00a0is facing\u00a0a tax evasion and labour misclassification crisis.\u00a0The\u00a0announcement by ESDC\u00a0this\u00a0week is a recognition that this crisis requires special enforcement attention through the creation of a specific road transportation enforcement unit:<\/p>\n
To specifically tackle the misclassification in the road transportation sector, the Labour Program has set up a dedicated national team that has, to date, completed over 300 inspections and outreach sessions. Non-compliance is addressed through a spectrum of enforcement measures, and it can result in the Labour Program issuing monetary penalties up to a maximum of $250,000. During the past six months, the Labour Program has issued payment orders totalling over $600,000 to employers in road transportation sector. This represents 80 % of overall payment orders issued.<\/em><\/p>\n The team will continue to expand the pace and scope of its efforts to combat illegal misclassification nationwide. We are strongly committed to addressing the illegal practice of employee misclassification and will continue to expand our efforts\u2026<\/em>\u00a0The Labour Program has intensified its efforts to eradicate the illegal practice of employee misclassification. Through enhanced education, as well as proactive and targeted inspections across Canada, the Labour Program is actively working at ensuring that employers understand and fulfill their obligations under the Code.<\/em><\/p>\n In its\u00a0memo to industry,\u00a0ESDC rightfully points out that misclassified workers miss out on important labour rights, protections, and entitlements as traditional\u00a0employees \u2013 including\u00a0overtime pay, general holidays, annual vacation, and several protected leaves like medical leave with pay \u2013 and that this practice can have serious consequences. To enforce these amendments, the Labour Program uses a spectrum of enforcement measures, including payment orders, an\u00a0escalating monetary penalties system<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0public naming<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cDriver Inc. is a scourge on our sector and it continues to rob those who play by the rules,\u201d said CTA President Stephen Laskowski. \u201cThis new enforcement unit\u00a0must\u00a0ensure that every driver being abused of their labour rights is paid in full and these gross violating carriers receive zero leniency. The laws have always been clear and they must be enforced through monetary penalties and other forms of punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n The CTA will be speaking with government and opposition parties to confirm their support of this enhanced enforcement regime. Further, the Alliance will be asking all political parties to pledge their support for ending the illegal practice of employee misclassification once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The trucking industry\u00a0is facing\u00a0a tax evasion and labour misclassification crisis.\u00a0The\u00a0announcement by ESDC\u00a0this\u00a0week is a recognition that this crisis requires special enforcement attention through the creation of a specific road transportation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[71,31,32,912,34],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","category-news-releases","tag-compliance","tag-driver-inc","tag-enforcement","tag-esdc","tag-labour-misclassification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}