Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

5613 - Employment Services

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in listing employment vacancies and selecting, referring and placing applicants in employment, either on a permanent or temporary basis; and establishments primarily engaged in supplying workers for limited periods of time to supplement the workforce of the client.

56131 - Employment Placement Agencies

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in listing employment vacancies and selecting, referring and placing applicants in employment, either on a permanent or temporary basis. The individuals placed are not employees of the placement agencies.

• Exclusion(s):

  • executive search consultants (See 54161 Management Consulting Services)

56132 - Temporary Help Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying workers for limited periods of time to supplement the workforce of the client. The individuals provided are employees of the temporary help service establishment. These establishments do not provide direct supervision of their employees at the clients' work sites.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • supplying farm labour (See 11511 Support Activities for Crop Production)

56133 - Employee Leasing Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing human resources and human resource management services to clients. These establishments operate in a co-employment relationship with client businesses or organizations and are specialized in performing a wide range of human resource and personnel management duties, such as payroll accounting, payroll tax return preparation, benefits administration, recruiting, and managing labour relations. Employee leasing establishments typically acquire and lease back some or all of the employees of their clients and serve as the employer of the leased employees for payroll, benefits and related purposes. Employee leasing establishments exercise varying degrees of decision making relating to their human resource or personnel management role, but do not have management accountability for the work of their clients' operations with regard to strategic planning, output or profitability.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • supplying workers for limited periods of time to supplement the work force of the client (See 56132 Temporary Help Services)