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Pay for flight attendants' duties

C-250 Flight Attendants’ Remuneration Act: An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (flight attendants)

Requires airlines to pay flight attendants their regular wage for pre-flight work, post-flight work, and mandatory training.

What Bill C-250 would do

The bill would amend the Canada Labour Code to require employers to pay flight attendants for time spent on pre-flight duties, post-flight duties, and mandatory training programs. Employers would have to pay flight attendants at least their regular wage rate for carrying out these duties.

Official text

Official summary

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.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Don Davies, Member of Parliament (Vancouver Kingsway)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedOct 21, 2025 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since October 21, 2025Introduced, but not debated yet.
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

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  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House now

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  4. Report stage in the House not yet

  5. Third reading in the House not yet

  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

  7. Second reading in the Senate not yet

  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since October 21, 2025.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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