List of federally regulated industries and workplaces

What are federally regulated workplaces?

Federally regulated companies are workplaces and businesses whose labour and employment rights are governed by the Canada Labour Code (CLC). The CLC establishes rights and responsibilities for employees and employers. This includes:

• Workplace health and safety rules
• Severance pay
• Federal minimum wage
• General or Statutory holidays
• Vacations
• Various types of leave (including paid sick leave)
• Penalties for CLC violations

List of federally regulated private sector industries

The private sector industries and workplaces regulated by the CLC in Canada are:

• Air transportation (airlines, airports, aerodromes, aircraft operations)
• Banks (including authorized foreign banks)
• Grain elevators, feed and seed mills, feed warehouses and grain-seed cleaning plants
• First Nations band councils and Indigenous self-governments
• Most federal Crown corporations
• Port services, marine shipping, ferries, tunnels, canals, bridges and pipelines (oil and gas) that cross international or provincial borders
• Postal and courier services
• Radio and television broadcasting
• Railways that cross provincial or international borders and some short-line railways
• Road transportation services (trucks, buses) that cross provincial or international borders
• Telecommunications (telephone, Internet, telegraph, cable systems)
• Uranium mining and processing, and atomic energy
• Any business that is essential to the operation of one of the above industries

List of federally regulated public sector industries

The public sector industries and workplaces regulated by the CLC in Canada are:

• The federal public service
• Parliament (the Senate, the House of Commons, the Library of Parliament)