The plenary of the Parliament of the Canary Islands has approved this Wednesday with the abstention of Vox and the support of the rest of the parliamentary groups a non-legal proposition in which the retirement of the cleaning ladies from the age of 58 is defended.
The initiative has been raised by the PSOE deputy Gustavo Santana, who has highlighted the importance of promoting from the Canary Islands a measure that corresponds to the State to implement and that could benefit 10,000 workers.
Santana has stated that "the appropriate context exists" to achieve this demand unanimously. "It is fair and there is sufficient data", because it is one of the professional categories that most deserves it, he said.
As detailed in the proposal, the occupational accident rate of cleaning ladies has increased in the last three years by 3.7%, reaching 38.41% in 2023, compared to 37.05% in 2022 and 34.7% in 2021.
Santana has also alluded to the precariousness of the sector and the non-compliance with collective agreements regarding cleaning ladies, which requires action by public institutions.
The initiative of the Parliament of the Canary Islands requests that the Canary Islands Institute for Occupational Health (Icasel) accredit in a report the morbidity and arduousness of the cleaning ladies so that, in turn, the State Government modifies the legal regime and the general procedure to establish reduction coefficients and anticipate the retirement age in the Social Security system to 58 years.
It has also been agreed to ask the Government of the Canary Islands to seek an agreement between unions and employers in the hotel industry to reach an agreement on the reduction coefficient for the early retirement of cleaning ladies.
Another of the demands of the Parliament is that there be a campaign by the Labor Inspectorate against the abuse of outsourcing of cleaning ladies through the hiring of companies external to the main company.
Finally, the Parliament of the Canary Islands asks the Government to carry out a specific awareness campaign aimed at the hotel sector on the psychosocial risks in cleaning ladies, in particular on the impact on their mental health.
