Bill C-415

Flight Attendants' Remuneration Act

An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (flight attendants)

Sponsor

Bonita Zarrillo  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 21, 2024

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Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends the Canada Labour Code to provide that, in calculating the time in respect of which an employee who is a flight attendant is to be paid, the employer must include the time that the employee spends in carrying out their pre-flight and post-flight duties and in completing mandatory training programs. It also provides that the employer must pay this employee not less than their regular rate of wages for carrying out these duties.

Elsewhere

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Flight Attendants' Remuneration ActRoutine Proceedings

October 21st, 2024 / 3:20 p.m.


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NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-415, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (flight attendants).

Mr. Speaker, I am introducing a bill to stop the exploitation of Canada's flight attendants. I want to thank the member for Hamilton Centre for seconding it.

Flight attendants have been exploited since the commercial aviation industry was launched because they were women. The exploitation continues today as billion-dollar airline companies profit off the backs of unpaid work. Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have let this happen.

Today, flight attendants who work in a federally regulated industry are expected to work for free up to 35 hours per month. This must end, and it can end with the adoption of this NDP bill. It would ensure that for every hour worked, flight attendants are paid their full wage, and that a long-standing discriminatory practice is rectified.

I thank the Canadian Union of Public Employees, whose workers took a stand with a very successful campaign called “Unpaid Work Won't Fly”. It has been an honour to work alongside them on this important legislation.

I call on the Liberal government to do what is right, adopt my bill as its own and take immediate action to make sure that unpaid work will not fly.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)