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Chart II-Coverage of Laws, cont.
Employment1 Covered

 
Exceptions2, 3

Special Coverage
Provisions

Compulsory as to all federal,
provincial, and municipal
employees, including members
of fire brigade and ambulance
staff working with or without
remuneration.

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-incouncil appointments, professional athletes,
personal financial holding companies, spouses
involved in an unincorporated business, some
nonresident employers and workers. Variances
from exemption may be requested in certain
circumstances.

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 self-improvement involving
work, inmates in work-release
programs, or forest firefighters.

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

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.

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 the aged,
infirm, or ill persons for more
than 24 hours a week. Lieutenant
governor-in-council may exclude
an industry, employer, or workers.

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.

Compulsory to all municipal,
provincial, and federal public
employment. Armed forces and
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
excluded.

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.

Voluntary as to excepted
employment; lieutenant governorin-council may regulate exclusion
of industry in which not more
than stated number of workers
fixed by regulation are usually
employed.

Newfoundland and
Labrador

Compulsory as to all employment,
except as excluded by regulation.

All provincial and federal
employees are covered.

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.

WorkplaceNL may accept
excluded employer or worker.

Northwest
Territories
and
Nunavut

Compulsory as to all employment.
Elective as to self-employed persons.

Compulsory as to all territorial
and municipal employment.

 

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

Firefighters and police are
excluded from mandatory
coverage but may apply for
voluntary coverage.

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.

Voluntary as to excepted
employments. Board may
include or exclude any industry
or set numerical exemption by
regulation.

Ontario

Compulsory as to all provincial
and municipal employment, as
well as related agencies, boards,
and commissions.

Exceptions include casual workers, outworkers,
and most volunteer workers.

Voluntary as to unenumerated
and excepted employment
with some exceptions. Special
provisions exist regarding
unpaid training participants and
voluntary emergency workers.

Jurisdiction

Private

Public

British
Columbia

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.

Manitoba

regulations. Employers of two or fewer
exempt, including active corporate
executives. Employer may elect
coverage for self.

Compulsory as to all employment
listed in Schedules 1 and 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).

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