After the Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption of the UGT (FeSMC) registered the denunciation of the hotel and catering agreement with the Labor and Occupational Health Directorate of the Balearic Islands, the negotiation process for a new labor agreement for workers in the Balearic Islands has been set in motion and already has a date: February 6.
On that day, negotiations will begin between employers and unions in the hotel and catering sector to define the conditions of the 180,000 people employed in hotels, restaurants and bars in the archipelago. Among the priorities of UGT is the need to demand strong wage increases and to establish a 35-hour working week. In this sense, they expect to reach a wage increase of more than 5%, a percentage higher than the last two agreements reached. In addition, they are demanding the extension of 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 workload measurement 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.
