20. The following casual or short-term employment is excepted:(a) employment in abating a disaster or effecting a rescue, if the employee is not in the regular employment of the employer;
(b) employment, other than as an entertainer, in a circus, show, fair, parade, carnival, exposition, exhibition or other like activity, if the employee:i. is not in the regular employment of the employer; and
ii. is so employed by the employer for less than 7 days in the year;
(c) (subparagraph revoked);
(d) employment by the Government of Canada, the government of a province, a municipality, a school service centre or a school board with respect to any referendum or election if the employee:i. is not in the regular employment of the employer; and
ii. is so employed by the employer for less than 35 hours with respect to such referendum or election.
Excepted employment as described in subparagraph b or d of the first paragraph becomes included employment from the time the employee who performs such employment becomes an employee in the regular employment of the employer.
Employment shall be included employment from its commencement, notwithstanding subparagraph b or d of the first paragraph, where such employment is performed for the benefit of a single employer during one or more periods whose total duration exceeds, in the course of a year:(a) 6 days, in the case of employment described in subparagraph b of the first paragraph;
(b) 34 hours, in the case of employment described in subparagraph d of the first paragraph.
R.R.Q., 1981, c. R-9, r. 8, s. 20; O.C. 789-99, s. 1; 816-2021O.C. 816-2021, s. 851.