While most work in Alberta is provincially regulated and subject to Alberta Employment Standards and the Alberta Human RIghts Act, workers in some sectors are regulated by federal codes, including the Canada Labour Code and the Canada Human Rights Act. 

These sectors include air transportation; banks; grain elevators, feed and seed mills, feed warehouses and rain-seed cleaning plants; First Nations band councils and Indigenous self-governments; most federal Crown corporations; port services, marine shipping, ferries, tunnels, canals, bridges and pipelines (oil and gas) that cross international or provincial borders; postal and courier services; radio and television broadcasting; railways that cross provincial or international borders and some short-line railways; road transportation services, including trucks and buses, that cross provincial or international borders; telecommunications, such as telephone, Internet, telegraph and cable systems; uranium mining and processing and atomic energy; any business that is vital, essential or integral to the operation of one of the aforementioned activities; Parliament; the federal public service.