Highlights :

• Ban on fees charged to LCP Caregivers by recruiters, either directly or indirectly, or by anyone on behalf of a recruiter.
• Preventing employers from recovering, directly or indirectly, recruitment and placement costs from live-in caregivers.
• Prohibiting the practice of taking a caregiver’s personal documents such as a passport and a work permit.
• Prohibiting reprisals against caregivers exercising their rights under the legislation.
• Allowing live-in caregivers up to 3 1/2 years to make a complaint.

For full details go to :  http://www.news.ontario.ca/mol/en/2009/12/helping-live-in-caregivers.html