MONTREAL — Canada’s major flight attendants union is crying foul on airline submissions to the federal authorities on its probe into unpaid work within the sector.
In a letter, the pinnacle of the union’s airline division says the self-audits on wages that carriers offered to authorities this month depend on a slender and “deceptive” definition of what constitutes as work with the intention to present that cabin crew are paid pretty.
Wesley Lesosky is looking on Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to reject the submissions, claiming they fail to disclose that many junior flight attendants successfully work for lower than minimal wage when actions akin to boarding passengers, passing by means of safety and conducting pre-flight checks are taken into consideration.
In Air Canada’s self-audit, obtained by The Canadian Press, the nation’s largest service says it discovered no situations the place flight attendants’ efficient hourly fee fell beneath minimal wage.
Nationwide Airways Council of Canada CEO Jeff Morrison has stated present practices already adjust to labour legal guidelines and compensate flight attendants pretty for his or her work.
Ottawa launched an investigation of the airline sector in August 2025, when negotiations between Air Canada and the union representing its cabin crew boiled over right into a strike that noticed planes grounded as staff took to the picket traces.
Findings from the primary section of the probe, printed in February, discovered little proof that unpaid work was widespread within the business, though investigators flagged some points with part-time and entry-level flight attendants for a better look.
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