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Chart II-Coverage of Laws, cont.
Jurisdiction
Employment1
Private
British
Columbia
Covered
Public
Compulsory to all nonexempt
employment. Proprietors or partners
of an unincorporated business,
independent operators, the employed
spouse of a proprietor, or an exempt
nonresident may apply for personal
coverage.
Compulsory as to all federal,
provincial, and municipal
employees, including members
of fire brigade and ambulance
staff working with or without
remuneration.
Exceptions2, 3
Consulates and trade delegations from foreign
countries, some air transportation firms
from outside of British Columbia, the Armed
Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
elected officials, certain order-in-council
appointments, professional athletes, personal
financial holding companies, spouses involved
in an unincorporated business, and some
nonresident employers and workers. Variances
from exemption may be requested in certain
circumstances.
Manitoba
Compulsory as to all nonexempt
employment. Employers, directors, and
independent contractors may apply for
personal coverage. Exempt industries
may apply for optional coverage.
Family members of farm owners
exempt.
Compulsory as to municipal,
provincial, and federal workers.
Elective for industries or
employers on reserve land
and workers in colleges and
universities. Public or private
principals, vice principals, and
teachers are exempt.24
New
Brunswick
Compulsory to all employers having
three or more workers; 25 or more
for the fishing industry. Elective for
nonsalaried officers and directors and
for employers for whom coverage is
not compulsory.
Newfoundland
and
Labrador
Compulsory as to all employment,
except as excluded by regulation.
Compulsory to all municipal,
provincial, and federal public
employment. Armed forces
and Royal Canadian Mounted
Police excluded.
All provincial and federal
employees are covered.
Outworkers and persons whose employment
is of a casual nature and who are employed
otherwise than for the purposes of the
employer's trade or business.
Special Coverage Provisions
Board may include persons engaged as
commercial fishers, in an undertaking
in the public interest, in vocational or
training programs, or in work-study
programs or other programs of selfimprovement
involving work, inmates
in work-release programs, or forest
firefighters.
Voluntary as to nonprofit and
charitable organizations and
individuals participating in work
experience or job-training programs.
Compulsory for domestics and
individuals who care for children or
aged, infirm, or ill persons for more
than 24 hours a week. Lieutenant
governor-in-council may exclude an
industry, employer, or workers.
Outworkers, domestic servants, members
of the family of the employer residing with
the employer who are under 16 years of age,
persons who play sports as their main source
of income, and persons whose employment is
of a casual nature and otherwise than for the
purposes of the industry.
Employment by a person in construction or
renovation of a private residence that is or
shall be used as a private residence of that
person, employment by a person, employment
by a person in a function in a private residence
of that person, and professional sports
competitors.
Northwest
Territories
and
Nunavut
Compulsory as to all employment.
Elective as to self-employed persons.
Compulsory as to all territorial
and municipal employment.
Voluntary as to excepted employment;
lieutenant governor-in-council may
regulate exclusion of industry in
which not more than stated number of
workers fixed by regulation are usually
employed.
WorkplaceNL may accept excluded
employer or worker.
Volunteer employees may on
application be deemed workers.
Coverage exists for harvesters of
country foods in the two territories.
Cost of coverage is provided by the
governments of the territories while
administration of the program is done
by the commission.
Nova Scotia Compulsory as to employment listed in
regulations. Employers of two or fewer
exempt, including active corporate
executives. Employer may elect
coverage for self.
Firefighters and police are
excluded from mandatory
coverage but may apply for
voluntary coverage.
Coverage for volunteer
firefighters mandatory as of
10/20/20.
Ontario
Compulsory as to all employment listed
in Schedule 1, Part I and Schedule 2.
Elective as to independent operators,
sole proprietors, partners, and
executive officers who do not work in
the construction industry. Compulsory
for most independent operators, sole
proprietors, partners, and executive
officers in the construction industry
(with certain exemptions).
Compulsory as to all provincial
and municipal employment,
as well as related agencies,
boards, and commissions.
Casual laborers (when they are employed
other than for the purpose of the employer's
trade or business), outworkers, servants, farm
laborers, educational institutions, persons in
medical work and dental surgery, veterinarians,
athletes, barbers, taxicab drivers, florists,
horticultural employment, and entertainers.
Exceptions include employment in industries
listed in Schedule 1, Part II in Ontario
Regulation 175/98 (though employers in those
industries can voluntarily apply for coverage),
casual workers, outworkers, and most
volunteer workers.
Voluntary as to excepted
employments. Board may include or
exclude any industry or set numerical
exemption by regulation.
Special provisions exist regarding
unpaid training participants and
voluntary emergency workers.
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