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I have been working for approximately 54 months at a cell phone repair shop they first hire me to renovate the store and they kept letting me work there every day of the week i would show up to do anything that needed done maintenance, dishes, tidying up my job consistently was to make there job easy hours would vary from day to day I was given a 13$ a hours cash everyday and had it listed on file after a month or two he would write me a flat check to go cash at the bank and come back and pay off what they had payed me Daly first years I had a look at the books salary was 10 000 seconds and third years I have no amount but I now I made at least 20 000 and this year in Rideau st in Ottawa were rents the shop he’s business well the owner hire me to fix the roof because part Love it was ripped off due to Highwinds and negligence and knew me from the prior year I had to fix another section of the roof well it being a big emergency I am mediately started to work and asked to be paid half of the quote I had sent well to make things work at the end I ended up doing a lot more work approximately $21,000 worth of work this summer which I had to fight to get 16,000 and which I only got paid 7000 of and that the owner of the shop where I work decided he was charging me taxes and taking a cut and since all the payments were going through his business account I never had access to the money ended up taking me for months to do a one and a half months job did not have money to hire anybody to do the work with me and I ended up not being able to get a big portion of the money and which I did the work because the place was falling apart all of this I’ve documented on video section per section every day of work I’ve done this summer explaining how I did the work to show how well it was done and how much work was involved now the small shop owner the one that runs from the owner iPhone has been a very good friend to me but just before the job was done he had fluid in me $8000 to pay materials and to live during the time I was working never in the amount more than $300 was given to me and it up at the end I old them money and I just could not understand why he just cut me off right after that I even continued working doing to clean up while I was doing your job and not punching in my To help them out and I haven’t had any money in the last three months he continued asking me to do things at the shop and doesn’t pay me I try to borrow money off and doesn’t borrow without any warning and he asked like nothing happened I wish I can collect the rest of the money from the owner or at least get something ordered the full amount of the job without him taking a cut what should I do
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