COURT BULLETIN
COMPANY FINED $100,000 AFTER PROVIDING FALSE RECORDS TO AN OFFICER
March 16, 2026
Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills DevelopmentConvicted: ML Staffing Solutions Inc.,158 Hester Street, Hamilton, Ontario, a
temporary help agency.
Location of Workplace: 158 Hester Street, Hamilton, Ontario
Description of Offences: ML Staffing Solutions Inc. was fined for providing
false records and obstructing an employment standards officer during an
inspection. By providing false records, the company contravened sections 131(1)and 91(11)of the Employment Standards Act (ESA), both offences under section 132of the ESA.
Date of Offences: January 27, 2023 to February 3, 2023
Date of Conviction: February 25, 2026
Penalty Imposed:
* Following a guilty plea in the Ontario Provincial Offences Court in Hamilton,
the company was fined $100,000 by Justice of the Peace Fabiano F. de M.
Mendes. The Crown Counsel were Sepideh Kamali and Evan Schiller.
* The court also imposed a 25 per cent 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.
Background:
* On December 28, 2022, an employment standards officer conducting an
inspection of ML Staffing Solutions Inc. issued a Demand for Records to the
company, to determine their compliance with the ESA.
* In response, the company provided partial records. The officer also obtained
records from the company’s clients and its bank.
* During a review of the records, the officer found multiple discrepancies.
While the client and bank records matched, none of the information contained
in the company records was accurate. The company had made and provided false
records to the officer. As such, the officer was unable to conduct an
inspection to determine the company’s compliance with the ESA.
* The company failed, as an employer by:
* producing false records, contrary to section 131(1)
of the ESA, which is an offence contrary to section 132
of the ESA.
* hindering, obstructing and/or interfering with an employment standards
officer conducting an investigation, contrary to subsection 91(11)
of the ESA, which is an offence contrary to section 132
of the ESA.
