Transportation workers outside Canada are exempt from mandatory coverage.
Please refer to relevant exclusion excerpt from The Workers Compensation Act (the Act) under Regulation 169/2008 below.
Includes incidental vehicle service or maintenance on own vehicles or vehicles for one trucking company.
Includes operation of a warehouse used to break down goods they are hauling (no custom storage).
are eligible to report their workers’ payroll to the Canadian province or territory where their workers reside.
32 Workers who ordinarily reside outside Canada and are temporarily working in or travelling through Manitoba and are employed in the air transport or cartage trucking industry by an employer whose principal place of business is outside Canada.
The Alternative Assessing Procedure (AAP) is part of the Inter-jurisdictional Agreement on Workers’ Compensation between the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba and all other Canadian workers compensation bodies. It permits qualified employers to report their payroll (workers’ earnings) to the Canadian province or territory where each worker resides, as opposed to splitting payroll based on mileage or time spent working in each jurisdiction.
Registration and premiums are paid in any and all Canadian jurisdictions where workers reside. If no workers reside in a specific jurisdiction, that jurisdiction will be identified as a “registering” board. In Manitoba, all “registering board” accounts are classified under 501-10 – AAP – Registering board. No premiums are collected.
An injured worker has the “right of election” or the option to choose to file a claim with the WCB in the jurisdiction where the injury occurred or in the jurisdiction they reside. The costs of any claims filed outside the worker’s resident province/territory will be billed back to the workers compensation body in the jurisdiction the worker resides.
