Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

8 (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the following employments are excluded from insurable employment:

• (a) employment of a person by an employer, other than as an entertainer, in connection with a circus, fair, parade, carnival, exposition, exhibition or other similar activity if the person

  • (i) is not regularly employed by that employer, and

  • (ii) is employed by that employer in that employment for less than seven days in a year; and

• (b) [Repealed, SOR/98-588, s. 1]

• (c) employment of a person by Her Majesty in right of Canada, the government of a province, a municipality or a school board in connection with a referendum or election to public office if the person

  • (i) is not regularly employed by that employer, and

  • (ii) is employed by that employer in that employment for less than 35 hours in any year after 1998.

(2) Where an employment that has been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph (1)(a) or (c) becomes a regular employment, the employment is insurable employment beginning on the day or at the hour, as the case may be, that the employment became a regular employment.

(3) Where a person has been employed by the same employer in one or more employments that have been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph (1)(a) and the total period of those employments exceeds six days in the same year, the employments, taken together, are insurable employment beginning on the day when the total period of employment began.

(4) Where a person has been employed by the same employer in one or more employments that have been excluded from insurable employment under paragraph (1)(c) and the total period of those employments exceeds 34 hours in the same year, the employments, taken together, are insurable employment beginning at the hour when the total period of employment began.