An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (flight attendants)
Bill C-415 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill amending the Canada Labour Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. L-2) to compensate flight attendants for pre-departure boarding work, currently uncompensated under federal labour law. Federally regulated airlines (Air Canada, WestJet, Porter Airlines) employ approximately 22,000 flight attendants in Canada per CUPE airline-division data. The pre-departure boarding work typically lasts 30 to 60 minutes per flight; unpaid work for this period was a long-standing CUPE Local 4070 (Air Canada Component) and CUPE Local 4055 (WestJet) grievance. The bill paralleled US Department of Labor 2024 Final Rule on flight-attendant boarding pay. Did not pass third reading; some elements were incorporated into the 2024 federal Bill C-58 (Anti-Scab Bill, S.C. 2024, c. 12).
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Would require federally regulated airlines to pay flight attendants for boarding, deplaning, and ground-delay time, not just when the aircraft doors are closed, work that long went unpaid for Canada's roughly 22,000 cabin crew. A Liberal private member's bill, similar to C-409; it did not pass third reading.
Issues this bill touches
- Workers' Rights & Labour
Pays flight attendants for all duty hours (boarding, deplaning, ground delays).
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the House of Commons.
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