L dependent status does not itself authorize children’s employment.
Separate school and business participation
Children may study while maintaining the applicable status, but training completion or family involvement does not create work permission or extend their stay.
The two positions are governed differently: the transferring employee's authorization is tied to the petitioning employer and the approved assignment, while a spouse in valid L-2S status is employment authorized incident to that status. Derivative L-2 status is available to a legally recognised spouse and to unmarried children under twenty-one; a common-law or domestic partner does not qualify, whatever their standing under provincial law. A spouse on L-2 status is generally employment-authorized incident to that status, which is a meaningful practical benefit for a household relocating around a transfer that took real effort to document. After entry, retrieve the spouse’s admission record from the official system and check the class it shows; a qualifying L spouse is employment authorized incident to status with the appropriate documentation, which an employer will normally want to see rather than hear described.