This foreign worker says he paid his own wages for a cook position that didn’t exist [Video]

This story is a collaboration between CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF).

A national restaurant company is dropping one of its Ontario franchisees after a foreign worker alleges he paid his own wages for a cook position that didn’t exist.

Quebec-based MTY Food Group says it has given Turtle Jack’s Muskoka Grill in Oakville, Ont. — one of its branded restaurants — 90 days to “leave the [MTY] franchise system” after a joint investigation by CBC and its reporting partner the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) shared allegations of an illegal payroll scheme at the restaurant.

MTY, which owns more than 50 Canadian brands — including Manchu Wok, Baton Rouge, Country Style and Mr. Sub — told CBC/IJF its team met with the franchisee and after “asking clear questions and not receiving clear answers,” a decision was made to terminate the business relationship.

“The type of illegal practices and immoral behaviour described in the allegations you reported …