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I'm involved in a case and I'm trying to prove that a small private company had hired someone during a particular time frame. The name of the employee is irrelevant. It just has to be proved that they did hire someone during X month of X year.

What document proves this though? What document do I ask from the company, which contains information about when exactly that company hired a new person?

I have heard of "annual reports" which contain information like employee-count. So if you can compare the annual reports of 2 consecutive years and see that the report in 2019 was 49 and the report in 2020 was 50, you can prove that 1 person was hired. But apparently private companies are not required by law to file annual reports.

What mandatory document do they file can I use then? Do they report their employee count on their income tax forms?

Edit: The jurisdiction is Ontario, Canada.

Nate Eldredge
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Call a witness from the HR department of the company in question. Or, simply have the person who was employed there testify under oath.

The key point to understand is that testimony under oath, from anyone, even an interested party, is evidence and can be used to prove something. You can prove points in court without documents.

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