3231-000 : Motor Vehicle Assembly Operations

Document sections:| Status | Scope | Note | Cross reference |

Status

Compulsory under Schedule 1

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Scope

Business activities include the assembly of all motor vehicle chassis. Also included is the assembly of automobiles (including minivans, passenger vans, and sports utility vehicles), truck tractors, and ladder and pumper trucks (firefighting). 

The activities of anodizing, metal heat treating, painting, or polishing are also included here when they are an integral part of the assembly process. 

Also included is the supply of motor vehicle and motor vehicle component manufacturing labour to business activities listed in, or falling under, CUs in rate groups 419 to 432 inclusive. 

Excluded from this category is the assembly of bus, truck, or van bodies, and the mounting of bus, truck, or van bodies onto chassis.

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Note

In the supply of labour industry, the agency supplying and paying the worker, not the employer to whom the worker is supplied, is responsible for covering the agency's workers under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.

These workers perform a variety of functions that are normally

• part of the day-to-day operations, and
• usually carried out by permanent staff

of the employer to whom they are supplied.

The activity of the worker, not the business activity of the employer to whom the worker is supplied, determines the classification of the worker's earnings.

For example, the earnings of a truck assembly worker supplied to a dump truck manufacturer are classified in this CU.

All workers supplied are compulsorily covered under Schedule 1 even if

• the work activity they carry out, or
• the business activity of the employer to whom they are supplied

is not covered according to the "Status" line of the relevant CU in the ECM.

Excluded from this category is the provision of a service whereby the employer providing the workers is responsible for creating a product as required by a written contract specifying types of deliverables, cost, timeframe for delivery, etc.

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Cross reference

D-411-02, Agricultural Implement Operations.
D-432-01, Truck and Bus Body Operations.
I-929-01, Supply of Non-clerical Labour Operations.

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