Chamber
commons
Stage
1st Reading
Introduced
Oct 21, 2025
Progress
This bill requires airlines to pay flight attendants for pre-flight duties, post-flight duties, and mandatory training at their regular wage rate.
Key Changes
- Pre-flight duties (safety checks, helping passengers board) must be counted as paid work hours
- Post-flight duties (helping passengers deplane, post-flight checks) must be counted as paid work hours
- Time spent completing mandatory training programs must be included in paid hours
- Time spent waiting at the workplace during flight delays — whether or not the delay is the employer's fault — must be paid
- Employers must pay at least the employee's regular wage rate for all of the above time
Gotchas
- The bill applies only to federally regulated employers under the Canada Labour Code, so provincially regulated aviation workers (if any) would not be covered
- Flight delay pay is required regardless of whether the delay is within the employer's control, meaning airlines must pay even for weather or air traffic control delays
- The bill does not specify a new minimum wage amount — it ties compensation to each employee's existing 'regular rate of wages,' which may vary by contract or collective agreement
- Unionized flight attendants may already have some of these protections through collective agreements; the bill would set a legislative floor for all flight attendants
- No fiscal impact or enforcement mechanism is explicitly described in the bill text
Who's Affected
- Flight attendants working for federally regulated Canadian airlines
- Canadian airlines and aviation employers subject to the Canada Labour Code
- Airline passengers (indirectly, if airlines adjust operations or pricing in response)
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Gotchas
- The bill applies only to federally regulated employers under the Canada Labour Code, so provincially regulated aviation workers (if any) would not be covered
- Flight delay pay is required regardless of whether the delay is within the employer's control, meaning airlines must pay even for weather or air traffic control delays
- The bill does not specify a new minimum wage amount — it ties compensation to each employee's existing 'regular rate of wages,' which may vary by contract or collective agreement
- Unionized flight attendants may already have some of these protections through collective agreements; the bill would set a legislative floor for all flight attendants
- No fiscal impact or enforcement mechanism is explicitly described in the bill text
Summary
Bill C-250 amends the Canada Labour Code to change how flight attendants are paid. Currently, many flight attendants are only paid from the time an aircraft's doors close until they open at the destination — meaning tasks like safety checks, helping passengers board or exit, and waiting during delays often go unpaid or are paid at a lower rate. This bill would require employers to count all of that time as paid work hours. The bill covers three main categories of time: pre-flight and post-flight duties (like safety checks and helping passengers board or deplane), mandatory training programs, and any time a flight attendant is at the workplace and available to the employer, including during flight delays. Employers would be required to pay at least the employee's regular wage rate for all of this time. The bill was introduced by NDP MP Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) and targets federally regulated airlines, which fall under the Canada Labour Code. It aims to close a long-standing pay gap in the aviation industry where flight attendants perform significant work without receiving full compensation.
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