Employment Insurance Regulations

7 The following employments are excluded from insurable employment:

• (a) [Repealed, SOR/97-310, s. 1]

• (b) employment of a person who is a member of a religious order, if the person has taken a vow of poverty and the person's remuneration is paid directly, or by that person, to the order;

• (c) employment in respect of which premiums are payable under

  • (i) the unemployment insurance law of any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, by reason of the Agreement between Canada and the United States Respecting Unemployment Insurance, signed on March 6 and 12, 1942, or

  • (ii) the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act of the United States;

• (d) employment in Canada of a person who resides in a country other than Canada, if premiums are payable in respect of services performed by the person in Canada under the unemployment insurance laws of that other country;

• (e) employment of a person for the purpose of a rescue operation, if the person is not regularly employed by the employer who employs them for that purpose; and

• (f) employment under an employment support measure referred to in paragraph 59(b) of the Act — or a measure that is the subject of an agreement under section 63 of the Act — that is established to

  • (i) help insured participants start businesses or become self-employed, or

  • (ii) provide insured participants with employment opportunities through which they can gain work experience to improve their long-term employment prospects.