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Pay Claims – Expenses not paid by employer and must be claimed
We have had numerous reports and information relating to pay issues. We have filed policy grievance CHQ-24-36 because we have discovered that Air Canada is instructing members to pay claim meal allowances/entitlements when Air Canada should be paying them automatically. Many affected members were not aware that they needed to claim them, and this left them out of pocket financially.
For an unknown reason, and contrary to past practice certain meal allowances ceased to be paid out automatically. It is our assertion that Air Canada should be automating all meal allowance/entitlement payouts to avoid this from happening and to return to the normal practice. Thank you to the members who have reached out and shared their “flight summaries” found on the HR Connex portal. To determine whether there may be meal allowances that you were not paid you will see at the bottom of your summary that there is a “Note” (see example below).
NOTE–EXPENSES WERE NOT AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED FOR THE FOLLOWING:
PLEASE SUBMIT AN ECLAIM
DATE FLTNBR DEP-STN ARR-STN
16MAR 0000 YUL YYZ
16MAR 1200 YYZ MIA
When you see this note at the bottom of your pay the employer is basically advising you that you were not paid expenses for the flights in the note. If this is the case for you there is now a requirement for you to claim the expense. As stated above this is not your job and in fact it is the employer’s job to pay you meal expenses as per the Collective Agreement. We have filed our policy grievance to remedy this situation. We will keep you posted as it moves through the grievance process.
We encourage all cabin crew to please check your “flight summaries” and claim any missed expenses. In addition to claiming your expenses we ask that you send us a copy of your flight summaries to pay@accomponent.ca so that we can keep track and compile more evidence for our policy grievance.