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Hiring Your First Employee in Canada

9 min readLast updated June 2026Beginner levelCanada-wideOfficial-source checked

The moment you hire someone, you become an employer — with payroll to run, a workplace to insure, and a set of legal minimums you can't contract out of. Here's the whole sequence, in order, so nothing gets missed on day one.

Hiring Your First Employee in Canada

The moment you hire someone, you become an employer — with payroll to run, a workplace to insure, and a set of legal minimums you can't contract out of. Here's the whole sequence, in order, so nothing gets missed on day one.

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