Ending an agreement with your caregiver
If your employee is unwilling or unable, without just cause, to perform the job as stated in the contract, and you no longer wish to employ the caregiver, you can terminate the contract. However, you may have agreed in the contract, or the law may require you, to give a notice of termination.
When you cannot give the employee the appropriate notice, you can pay the employee for the period the notice would have covered. Regardless of whether the law or your contract requires you to give notice or pay in lieu of notice, you may be liable for it under common law or Quebec's civil law.
You are required to notify the Canada Employment Centre if you no longer need the services of your caregiver. You also have to issue the caregiver Record of Employment within 7 days from terminating the contract. You can call your local HRSDC office to send you the form. You will also have to send her later T4 slip for the year stating earned wages and deductions.
Please remember that if you abuse the terms of the work agreement, you will have difficulty hiring a live-in caregiver under the program again. If you need to find a replacement for your employee, you must follow the same application procedure under the program as before.
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