Federal labour standards that apply to you

Federal labour standards that apply to you

Federal labour standards apply to full-time and part-time employees* and seasonal, temporary and casual employees who work in federal jurisdiction industries and workplaces.

Federal jurisdiction industries and workplaces include:

• Interprovincial and international transportation
  • Railways
  • Road transportation – trucks and buses
  • Airports, aerodromes, airlines and aircraft operations
  • Marine navigation and shipping, port services and maintenance of waterways
  • Ferries, tunnels, canals and bridges
  • Pipelines – oil and gas
• Grain
  • Grain elevators
  • Feed and seed mills
  • Feed warehouses and grain-seed cleaning plants
• Banking
  • For example, the National Bank of Canada
• Uranium
  • Uranium mining and processing
  • Atomic energy
• Telecommunications and broadcasting
  • Radio, television, telephone and Internet
• Federal crown corporations
  • For example, Canada Post Corporation and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
• First Nations band councils

Did you know?

19,000 employers and 900,000 employees (6% of all Canadian workers) are subject to federal labour standards.

* This includes unionized workers and temporary foreign workers in federally regulated industries and workplaces.

For more information on federal labour standards, visit canada.ca/federal-labour-standards or contact the Labour Program.

A list of provincial and territorial Ministries of Labour can be found on the Federally Regulated Industries and Workplaces page: canada.ca/regulated-industries

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