"Impact Owes me Over $16,000," Janitor
Yet another worker comes forward claiming unpaid wages, complaint filed
Naser-Eldine El-Sanadli, a former employee of Impact, has filed a complaint with the Ministry of Labour claiming Impact owes him over $16,000 in unpaid wages.
Mr. El-Sanadli was fired without notice after working for five years for Impact. During his employment he never receive any vacation pay, or overtime pay despite working 55 hours a week. Neither has he received his last week’s pay or severance pay in lieu of notice.
This complaint comes just weeks after a Whitby-area worker filed a lawsuit claiming over $20, 000 in unpaid wages. Another former employee, Eugenia Nagar, had to wait to receive her pay from Impact until a ruling by the Ministry of Labour ordered the company to compensate her; she waited for eight months.
Last year the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) asked the Ministry of Labour to conduct an investigation of Impact’s employment practices claiming the cleaning contractor employs a subcontracting scheme designed to deny a large number of its employees their basic statutory rights.
In response to abuses like the ones above, many asset managers and owners are adopting socially responsible investment codes. A Responsible Property Services Code has been developed by the
Shareholder Association for Research and Education and the Atkinson Foundation. Work in this area being done by an asset manager in the real estate industry was recently covered by the National Post.
See May 11, 2009 article in the National Post: Hard Assets Come with Unique Perils (pdf)
Learn more about the Responsible Property Services Code