The Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of UGT (FeSMC) has registered the denunciation of the hotel and catering agreement with the Labor and Occupational Health Directorate of the Balearic Islands, thus initiating the negotiation process for a new labor agreement that will benefit the nearly 180,000 people employed in hotels, restaurants and bars of the archipelago. This movement responds to the need to demand strong wage increases and to establish a 35-hour working week.
Negotiating table
UGT has urged the signatory organizations of the previous agreement, which expires next March 31, to formalize the creation of the negotiating table, with the aim of starting talks as soon as possible. According to the union, the new agreement should go beyond the improvements of the current agreement and mitigate the loss of purchasing power caused by the high cost of living in the Balearic Islands.
More guaranteed period
UGT’s priorities include extending the guaranteed work period for permanent employees from the current six months to nine months a year, as well as measures to improve occupational health. In this sense, the union requests the extension of the measurement of workloads to kitchen and dining room staff, as well as a special plan to prevent heat stress, an increasingly pressing problem in summer due to rising temperatures. The sustainability of the sector also requires a training and qualification plan, whose effective implementation will be another of the points that UGT will bring to the negotiating table. The union stresses the need to make the hotel and catering industry more attractive and sustainable in the long term.
