CCOO and UGT have signed a preliminary collective agreement with the hotel business association of the province of Las Palmas, pending ratification by the assemblies of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The agreed increase establishes an increase of 3% in 2022, and 2.5% in 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively.
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Both trade union organizations have reported in a joint statement that they have not been able to fulfill all their demands at the negotiating table, in which, however, a preliminary agreement has been reached that affects more than 65,000 workers "who have been waiting for salary increases since 2020".
UGT and CCOO have explained that one of their demands was that the minimum period of activity of permanent seasonal contracts be nine months to guarantee the right to unemployment benefits for these workers and that, in the case of part-time contracts, it should be continuous.
The agreement also implies the commitment not to resort to temporary hiring "while there are periods of inactivity in the same professional category".
Other advances of this preliminary agreement refer to the inclusion of permanent seasonal workers in the annual vacation planning, "with the employer setting their periods of inactivity outside the vacation periods selected by the same workers".
It also regulates the rest between shifts in split shift days, for which a minimum of two hours is set between one and the other.
Similarly, "the conditions of temporary disability in oncological diseases are improved", a maintenance supplement is established at a rate of 1.92 euros per day per worker for contribution purposes.
Maintenance is guaranteed to all workers "being outside effective working hours for days of less than 6 hours" and the category of sub-governess in Level II is regularized, "renaming it 2 Governess".
