Did some digging...this was asked on another forum a few years back and was answered by the committee chair at the time. It's not in the collective agreement itself. It's in the pension plan text. Various definitions of a member, retired member, pension eligibility, etc... Basically says you need t...

Although the mandatory retirement exemption in the Canadian Human Rights Act was repealed effective December 15, 2012 and as a result companies cannot have a blanket policy requiring termination on the basis of age, there is a 'common law' defence permitting such a policy. It is called ' bona fide o...

The collective agreement may have changed on this point since I was forced to retire at age 60, but to my knowledge there is nothing in any of the collective agreements of Air Canada with any of its unions that requires an individual to retire in order to receive the pension. In fact, recently I was...

Here is the full decision:

Today the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released decision 2025 CHRT 11 that strikes down the policy of Local 500 of the ILWU (Vancouver longshoremen) that specified that anyone who availed themselves of their pension benefits while continuing to remain employed would be denied their exercise of sen...

In answer to the original question... Without missing a day of work, initially as a First Officer, then as a Captain, I completed three university degrees then completed my articles with the Law Society. Subsequently I worked full-time as legal counsel to several organizations not related to the air...

I see that this thread has been resurrected. Please note that the links in the first few pages are no longer valid, as I shut down the Fly Past 60 web site several years ago. You can find the cases referred to in those links by searching www.canlii.org, which is the legal database created by the Law...

I kept the collective agreements for all the major Canadian carriers circa 2002. I put them in storage, with my closed files in YWG sometime around 2005. Not sure if I still have them stored, as I did purge a lot of those files after seven years. I will be back in WG next week and will advise.

Earlier this year the FAA introduced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) requiring drones operating in the USA to have software installed that transmits a number of data streams to allow remote identification of the specific drone, its location, its launch point and several other parameters. The...

Families of Boeing Crash Victims Can Challenge U.S. Settlement, Judge Rules A federal judge in Texas on Friday handed a significant victory to relatives of the victims of two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes who are seeking to overturn a $2.5 billion legal settlement between Boeing and the Justice Dep...

flying4dollars wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:20 am Sad to hear the loss of what sounded like a great aviator and gentleman.

He would have been the first to tell you that he was no gentleman.

Two weeks ago my son was traveling full-fare from YYZ to DCA (Ronald Reagan, close to downtown) on a flight leaving around 4:00 PM. His flight was cancelled, apparently, " due to weather ," according to the text message that he received advising him of the cancellation. There was no issue with the Y...

In the late 1970's, when I was on the WAWCON Committee (when Bob Pearson was the Chair of our negotiating team) we used to refer to these types of disclosures as "dirty laundry." It's a very safe bet to assume that almost everybody has some. Often, it is what is not disclosed that is critical in dec...

... it’s almost a certainty that someone who works for pivot was aware of what was going on. Whether it was the crew members operating, or someone back at home base, or both. I think you need to watch American Gangster and see how this all works. Almost all of these operations involve contracts wit...

If there is a lesson to be learned here, practically speaking, from a lawyer with some experience in these matters, report it on arrival in YYZ, not prior departure. Do not allow yourself to be subjected to the vagaries of a "third world" judicial system, and do not assume the the judicial system fr...

It's almost a certainty that none of the crew had any clue. They arrived the day before, had a short layover, and arrived at the airport an hour or so before the outbound flight. The aircraft had been on the ground there for over four days. The crew obviously didn't lug 200 KG of cocaine from their ...

It is here to alert anyone at Air Canada operating into or out of Punta Cana that the same thing could happen to them. Show up at the airport one hour before your scheduled flight and wind up in a hell-hole jail charged with drug trafficking, or worse, not charged but stuck in a jail and not allowed...

‘We are not safe here’: Canadian airline crew pleads for help from Ottawa two months after drug seizure in Dominican Republic A Pivot Airlines crew has been stranded in Punta Cana for two months, potentially facing serious criminal charges after five bags of cocaine were discovered in the E&E bay, ...

DJI just announced today the availability of the Mini 3 Pro. This aircraft will be a game-changer for one big reason. Not only does it have a 48 MPx camera and 12 MPx Video camera, but at 249 grams, it falls under the 250 g limit above which it requires Transport Canada registration and approval to ...

Transition9er2 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:55 am You’ll likely get more interest if you put this post on either WestJet or Sunwings pages. This has nothing to do with Air Canada.

Air Canada employees should not consider themselves immune to what's happening in their own industry.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/duty-to-adhere-to-principles-of-equal-treatment-and-transparency-vxvmxgkvl Steel magnate Alexei Mordashov, known as Russia’s richest man with a fortune worth US$29-billion, has been sanctioned in Europe for his ties to the Kremlin and businesses that support the w...

'To' old or 'Too' old. It's probably not about age, in your case. Having said that, age discrimination is illegal in Canada, as Air Canada painfully found out in refusing to hire pilots on the basis of age: https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fca/doc/1985/1985canlii3113/1985canlii3113.html?autocompleteStr=...

Check out the NAV Drone web page. There is also an APP for your handheld devices, both iOS and Android. https://www.navcanada.ca/en/flight-planning/drone-flight-planning.aspx I have had incredible success with rapid flight approval within Class C airspace, using the site. For peripheral Class C airs...

Can't recall that process ever taking place, not to say that it did not. My experience with the Federal Government is that regardless of the parties involved in the industrial action, the feds have little appetite for any actions that have any adverse effect on the economy, especially strikes in the...

American Airlines squares off with aircrew before holiday travel season American offered pilots a 50% pay increase for flying during certain peak days around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day and an additional 50% increase for picking up extra holiday trips. But the pilots union voted to r...