Is it legal to get paid in cash?

[teejme]

Im a international student. I have been offered a parttime job. some weeks i''ll be working 50hrs. other weeks no work. says it should average out to be 20hrs/week.
Employer says he will pay cash and i can give him receipts
Will CIC accept receipts of proof of income instead of stubs
Is there any sites i can look this up on?

 

[zardoz]

Im a international student. I have been offered a parttime job. some weeks i''ll be working 50hrs. other weeks no work. says it should average out to be 20hrs/week.
Employer says he will pay cash and i can give him receipts
Will CIC accept receipts of proof of income instead of stubs
Is there any sites i can look this up on?

Probably not. Also, you have to consider the mandatory deductions for CPP, EI, TAX etc. These are supposed to be handled via payroll. Just because you get "cash", it doesn't exempt you from paying the deductions.

Finally, and this is the big one, you are only allowed to work an actual 20 hours per week, NOT an average of 20 hours per week.
More than 20 hours in a single week is illegal and you risk serious consequences.

 

[scylla]

Im a international student. I have been offered a parttime job. some weeks i''ll be working 50hrs. other weeks no work. says it should average out to be 20hrs/week.
Employer says he will pay cash and i can give him receipts
Will CIC accept receipts of proof of income instead of stubs
Is there any sites i can look this up on?

It's illegal.

 

[Bs65]

Working more than 20 hours a week is possibly an even bigger issue to any future dealings with IRCC. As said above you cannot average out hours , 20 per week is the absolute legal maximum

 

[teejme]

thanks glad i asked before i accepted

 

[Copingwithlife]

Im a international student. I have been offered a parttime job. some weeks i''ll be working 50hrs. other weeks no work. says it should average out to be 20hrs/week.
Employer says he will pay cash and i can give him receipts
Will CIC accept receipts of proof of income instead of stubs
Is there any sites i can look this up on?

And that "employer', is engaged in under the table activity, which is illegal as well. If he isn't paying into the payroll deductions, then they are more then likely are not paying into WSIB, which insures workers if they get injured while on the job.

Be part of the solution to stamp out under the table aka being paid in cash/tax cheating activity in Canada
When you submit a lead, you are supporting your community and the programs and services we all rely on to improve quality of life in Canada.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-ag...uspected-tax-cheating-in-canada-overview.html

 

[teejme]

Actually I misunderstood what he was saying. He had no problem calling the labour board on speaker phone and i listened. agent said yes employers can pay employee in cash but employer must do all necessary deductions, and give stubs to employee
i also now understand that i can only work 20hrs/ week only.
thanks all!