What does Chapter 7 – Labour Mobility – do?
Chapter 7 deals with elimination of labour mobility barriers. Chapter 7 eliminates requirements imposed on certified workers moving across Canadian jurisdictions whereby their qualifications obtained in one province or territory were not recognized by another without the individual meeting residency requirements or having to obtain substantial additional training, experience or assessment as a condition of practicing their trade or occupation. Effective April 1, 2009, AIT requires that individuals qualified / certified in one Canadian province or territory must be recognized as qualified to practice the occupation in any other without significant additional training, experience, examinations or assessment of qualifications. This eliminates the need for a certificate exchange, since when a worker moves between jurisdictions certificates issued elsewhere will be recognized. What occupations are covered? AIT’s labour mobility provisions apply to those occupations for which provincial cert
