List of federally regulated industries and workplaces

The Canada Labour Code regulates the following industries and workplaces.

Federally regulated private sector (Parts I, II and III of the Code):

• Air transportation, including airlines, airports, aerodromes and aircraft operations
• Banks, including authorized foreign banks
• Grain elevators, feed and seed mills, feed warehouses and grain-seed cleaning plants
• First Nations Band Councils (including certain community services on reserve)
• Most federal Crown corporations, for example, Canada Post Corporation
• Port services, marine shipping, ferries, tunnels, canals, bridges and pipelines (oil and gas) that cross international or provincial borders
• Radio and television broadcasting
• Railways that cross provincial or international borders and some short-line railways
• Road transportation services, including trucks and buses, that cross provincial or international borders
• Telecommunications, such as, telephone, internet, telegraph and cable systems
• Uranium mining and processing and atomic energy
• Any business that is vital, essential or integral to the operation of one of the above activities

Federally regulated public sector (Part II of the Code only):

• Federal public service
• Parliament (such as, the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament)

Private-sector firms and municipalities in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (Part  I of the Code only)

Find out more about the Canada Labour Code and which part or parts apply to your workplace.

If you do not work in a federally regulated industry, consult the employment standards for the province or territory that you work in:

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia
• Nunavut
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon