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COVID-19 UPDATES
DECISIONS
- Public Service Grievance Board – Term of Employment – Tremblay v. Ontario (Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), 2020 CanLII 52533
Managers in Aviation Services objected to discontinuation of salary allowance, rolled into new base salary following job evaluation exercise – issue was whether salary allowance a distinct working condition or term of employment – employer argued salary allowance tied to previous classification, not position – complainants did not suffer immediate reduction in remuneration, but argued loss of future opportunities for wage increases or progression – Board found salary allowance to be a term and condition of employment, unilaterally changed by employer – complainants clearly rejected change – breach of employment contract – issue of remedy remitted back to parties - Employment Standards – Payday – Plaza Premium Lounge B.C. Ltd. (Re), 2020 CarswellBC 1874
Operator of airport lounges appealed Director of Employment Standards’ refusal to grant payday variance – employer sought additional two days to provide pay to facilitate payroll processing at headquarters in Hong Kong – employer argued variance would allow more frequent and more accurate pay cheques for employees – Director found variance sought did not meet requirements, no compelling benefit to employees justifying deviation from standards – employer argued Director erred in law by applying more strenuous standard of “compelling benefit” rather than “standard of fair treatment” contemplated by ESA – broad discretionary authority to approve or deny a variance – Director’s conclusions reasonable – appeal dismissed - Workers’ Compensation – Presumption of Occupational Injury – Trans-Sol Aviation Service inc. et Spence, 2020 QCTAT 2753
Ramp agent entitled to benefits for concussion sustained at work – entitlement confirmed on administrative review – employer appealed conclusion of occupational injury – test to establish presumption of occupational injury met – appeal dismissed - Workers’ Compensation – Imputation of Costs – Securitas Transport Aviation Security Ltd., 2020 QCTAT 2776
Temporary assignment of boarding agent following workplace injury – benefit costs imputed to employer – employer appealed cost assignment because employee continued to work after her injury – evidence showed employee performed only some of regular duties but not how much of regular duties they represented – lack of evidence to demonstrate employee performed regular duties – appeal dismissed
CTA DECISIONS
- Application – 1697355 Ontario Limited c.o.b. Gateway North Outfitters – Determination No. A-2020-149
Suspension of Licence No. 160046 - Application – K & M Ventures Ltd. – Determination No. A-2020-148
Continue the suspension of Licence No. 150079 - Application – Fort Frances Sportsmen Airways Ltd. – Determination No. A-2020-147
Suspension of Licence Nos. 962337 and 967115 - Application – ACASS Ireland Limited – Determination No. A-2020-145
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, SC 1996, c 10 - Suspension – FSS Aircraft Management Services Inc. – Order No. 2020-A-133
Licence Nos. 020157, 020158 and 050090 - Suspension – Executive Express Aviation LLC c.o.b. JA Air Charter – Order No. 2020-A-132
Licence No. 090080 - Suspension – Trans North Aviation Ltd. – Order No. 2020-A-131
Licence No. 967515 – reinstated effective August 6, 2020 - Suspension – ASI Charter, Inc. c.o.b. Peak Medevac International – Order No. 2020-A-130
Licence No. 190015 – reinstated effective August 5, 2020 - Suspension – Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation – Order No. 2020-A-129
Licence No. 040082 - Suspension – Exec 1 Aviation, Inc. – Order No. 2020-A-128
Licence No. 030120
TC/TSB NEWS
- Government of Canada announces new measures to support essential air access to remote communities
- Pilots can’t just ‘go have a look’ to see if they can figure out where the runway is
- Canadian Airworthiness Directives
- Civil Aviation Reference
- Foreign Airworthiness Directives
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
- COPA: BC laser attacks on aircraft increasing
- COPA: Pilot decision making focus of fatal CFIT accident investigation
- COPA: Pilotless passenger drone to fly in Canada
- IATA: July 2020 survey – Airline Business Confidence Index
UNION NEWS
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACI and ICAO’s global management accreditation programme goes virtual
- Canada and Saskatchewan invest in improvements at Moose Jaw Municipal Airport
- Mandatory temperature checks coming to St. John’s Airport by end of September
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Helicopter Technology Company’s new UH-1/205 blades certified by Transport Canada
- Weather reporting tools for safe helicopter operations
AVIATION NEWS
- Air Force veteran Sullivan joins Boeing Canada team
- Air Canada rips Trudeau over travel restrictions, threatens to cancel plane orders
- Air India plane crashes in Kerala after skidding off the runway
- Air passenger advocacy group asks top court to hear ticket refund case
- Air Transat to cancel all flights from Western Canada to U.S., sun destinations this winter
- B.C. calls on Ottawa to share IDs of airline passengers exposed to COVID-19
- Canada receives proposals to replace CF-188 Hornet fleet
- Canadian military to continue flying old rescue planes as COVID-19 delays new aircraft
- KF Aerospace: Anything but a one-trick pony
- ITPS: The tools to succeed
- Law students create free airline refund complaint generator for COVID-19 related cancellations for flights to, from or connecting in the USA
- More Canadians inquiring about private jets amid pandemic
- NAVBLUE launches RunwaySense to assess and report runway conditions
- PAL Aerospace receives preliminary notice of Netherlands Coastguard contract award
- Porter Airlines updates restart date to Oct. 7
- Searching for early use cases for eVTOL aircraft
- Virgin Atlantic airline files for U.S. bankruptcy protection
- Yukon celebrates 100 years of flight
