Section 209.96 — Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations: Separate violation — multiple foreign nationals

A failure to comply — that is not justified under subsection 209.2(3), (4) or (5), 209.3(3), (4) or (5) or 209.4(2) — with a condition that affects more than one foreign national constitutes a separate violation for each foreign national affected. A failure to comply — that is not justified under subsection 209.2(3) or 209.3(3) — with any one of the following elements of the condition set out in item 9 of Table 1 of Schedule 2, constitutes a separate violation: to provide the foreign national with employment in the same occupation as the occupation that is set out in the foreign national’s offer of employment; to provide the foreign national with wages that are substantially the same as — but not less favourable than — those set out in the foreign national’s offer of employment;

and to provide the foreign national with working conditions that are substantially the same as — but not less favourable than — those set out in the foreign national’s offer of employment. With respect to employers who employ foreign nationals as live-in caregivers, a failure to comply — that is not justified under subsection 209.3(3) — with either one of the following elements of the condition set out in item 10 of Table 1 of Schedule 2, constitutes a separate violation: to ensure that the foreign national resides in a private household in Canada, to ensure that the foreign national provides child care, senior home support care or care of a disabled person in that household without supervision. A failure to comply — that is not justified under subsection 209.2(3) or 209.3(3) — with the condition set out in item 17 of Table 1 of Schedule 2 with respect to any one of the elements set out in paragraphs 196.2(1)(a) to (e) constitutes a separate violation.