Employment & Your Crew

How the CRA decides employee vs contractor: guide RC4110, the Wiebe Door and Sagaz factors, the dependent-contractor category and the personal services business trap.

Hiring a temporary foreign worker in the trades: the LMIA test and $1,000 fee, the high and low-wage streams, 2026 rules, and the long, honest timelines.

When and how to issue an ROE through Service Canada: the triggers, the five-day deadline, ROE Web, the Box 16 code, and why the self-employed have none.

How to end employment in Canada: statutory notice or pay in lieu, the 8-week caps, just cause, and why common-law reasonable notice is the real cost.

What changes when you hire your first employee in Canada: a CRA payroll account, source deductions, WCB registration, employment standards and a written offer.

The 2026 minimum wage in every Canadian province and territory, with effective dates: Alberta $15.00 to Nunavut $19.75, and the four rates that rise on 1 October 2026.

Running payroll in Canada: the 2026 CPP, CPP2 and EI rates, the employer share, CRA remittance deadlines and penalties, T4s, and how Quebec QPP and QPIP differ.

Why workers compensation is mandatory in Canada: registering with your provincial board or the CNESST, owner coverage, clearance certificates and per-board rates.

The T5018 for Canadian construction: who must file, the $500-per-subcontractor threshold, the over-50% income test, the six-month deadline and the $25-per-day penalty.

The provincial patchwork of vacation pay and statutory holidays in Canada: the 4%, 6% and 8% vacation rates, the stat holiday counts, and worked-stat pay.

The provincial overtime thresholds in Canada: daily 8-hour, weekly 40, 44 and 48-hour rules, the 1.5x rate, BC double time, and averaging agreements.

How Quebec construction labour works: Act R-20, the CCQ, sector collective agreements, competency cards, union affiliation, and fines up to $85,000 each.