TOP STORY
Aircraft maintenance engineer terminated after refusing cannabis test
DECISIONS
- Freeze violation — Canadian Helicopters Limited v OPEIU — 2020 FCA 37
Judicial review of CIRB decision — employer found to have violated Labour Code freeze — unionization drive required no change in employment conditions — new pilots hired at different wage scale below current pilot wages — judicial review denied — Board found that change in terms went beyond ‘business as before’ — Board was entitled to finding of fact - Out of time — Brush v Air Canada — 2020 BCCRT 133
Plaintiff claimed airline’s failure to credit Aeroplane points for flight — plaintiff paid $2,288 — points were missing from Aeroplane account — plaintiff filed action after numerous attempts to resolve issue with Air Canada — Air Canada denied plaintiff his claim — plaintiff continued to send claim letters — plaintiff was out of time — first response was enough to make plaintiff aware of airline’s position; should have launched action earlier - Wage premium — Unifor v Air Canada — 2020 CanLII 7799 (CA LA)
Policy and individual grievance — union claimed employer was not paying $1.00/hr premium for special assignment when employees attended training off-base — grievance dismissed — collective agreement defined ‘base’ as a place where employees are employed — employees could not be assigned outside location where colleagues worked for Air Canada - Termination — Air Canada and CUPE (J.D.) — 2020 CarswellNat 183 (CA LA)
Flight attendant suspended pending termination — employee engaged in workplace harassment and discrimination: nationality/ethnic origin toward flight attendant — harassing comments — investigation proved allegations — grievor discharged from employment — grievor took sensitivity training of his own initiative — apologized for comments — grievance upheld — employer had just cause to discipline; not enough cause to terminate — unpaid suspension substituted
CTA DECISIONS
- Application — Upper Valley Aviation Ltd. — Determination No. A-2020–17
Pursuant to section 61 of the Canada Transportation Act - Application — Jet Up Aviation, LLC c-o-b as Jet Up Aviation — Determination No. A-2020-16
Pursuant to subsection 73(2) of the Canada Transportation Act - Suspension — Omni Air Transport, LLC — Order No. 2020-A-18
Licence no. 050053, reinstated effective February 5, 2020 - Suspension — Freedom Aviation, Inc. — Order No. 2020-A-17
Licence no. 160007, reinstated effective February 5, 2020
TC/TSB NEWS
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION NEWS
COPA
Drone pilots arrested
Feds invest in bush plane museum
Mirabel controllers back
Yukon company receives heavy-lift chopper
ICAO
Update on ICAO and WHO coronavirus recommendations
UNION ASSOCIATION NEWS
ALPA
Coronavirus information for flight crews
UNIFOR 2002
Air Canada leadership reconvenes in Toronto for next steps in bargaining
AIRPORT NEWS
- ACI World appoints Luis Felipe de Oliveira as new Director General
- ACI World Development News: Issue 1 – 2020
- Skylock to introduce new drone-detection system at Singapore airshow
- The data behind improving airport safety
- Third ACI customer experience global summit open for registration
- YQB and Cégep de la Pocatière launch a pet therapy project to relieve travel stress
ROTARY OPERATOR NEWS
- Aero Asset gives its view on the pre-owned helicopter market
- AeroWeather and SKYTRAC sign MoU
- Airbus Helicopters releases new safety notice regarding Vortex Ring State training
- Erickson, Sikorsky sign firefighting development agreement
- Honeywell forecasts 4,100 civil helicopter deliveries through 2024
- Kauai helicopter – crash pilot lost license for 2010 drug use
- SKYTRAC to provide global mobile data coverage in 200+ countries
- STARS to introduce H-145 to Manitoba this spring
- Wisk’s self-flying air taxis to carry passengers in New Zealand trial
- Years of safety disputes trouble company that flew Bryant
AVIATION NEWS
- Air Canada to offer customers the convenience of PayPal for purchasing tickets in Canada
- Air Georgian, sub-contractor that flew 1.5 million Air Canada passengers a year, heading toward bankruptcy protection
- Canada’s Air North eyes fleet renewal by 2023
- Canada urges Iran to send downed plane’s black boxes to France
- Canadian evacuees land at CFB Trenton
- Centennial College’s answer to Canada’s shortage of aviation workers
- Central Mountain Air names Bob Cummings as CEO
- Drone network provides early warnings for natural disasters
- Garnett questions Iran’s ability in flight 752 investigation
- Inspection drone with 5-hour flight time released by Skyfront
- NAV Canada announces a tentative agreement with PIPSC
- Textron in talks to buy Bombardier’s business aviation unit
- Toronto-bound Air Canada flight forced back to Madrid after engine issue
