IRIS employment agency owes $100,000 in unpaid wages

Tio'tià:ke (Montréal), May 5, 2025. – Today, in front of the IRIS recruitment and placement agency's offices, migrant workers and their allies will be gathered together to denounce the abuses experienced in the hands of this agency and to demand their unpaid salaries, payroll and tax records, necessary for their immigration procedures, as well as to make their claims concerning the employment agencies and the temporary foreign workers' programme…

IRIS employment agency owes $100,000 in unpaid wages

On May 5, a group of workers demonstrated outside the offices of the IRIS employment agency in Lasalle. They are claiming $100,000 in unpaid wages and are still waiting for their tax statements. Nineteen of them have filed a complaint with the CNESST and requested government assistance. But the process is dragging on, and many risk being deported before a solution is found. Source