Air Canada could have to pay more than $100 million to over 2,000 workers who lost their jobs at maintenance centres more than a decade ago, according to lawyers in a class action case.
The 2,198 Aveos employees from Montreal, Winnipeg, and Mississauga lost their jobs in March 2012, according to law firm Trudel, Johnston and Lesperance.
Nearly two years after her judgment stating that Air Canada had violated the law and had to compensate the workers, Justice Marie-Christine Hivon of the Quebec Superior Court rendered a new judgment rejecting most of Air Canada’s arguments aimed at reducing the amounts the company might have to pay its former employees, according to the law firm.
