The CCOO and UGT unions and the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs (FEHT) of Las Palmas believe that cleaning ladies should be included in the catalog of highly dangerous professions and thus be able to qualify for early retirement at age 58.
In a joint statement released this Wednesday, the two unions and the FEHT have indicated that the decree being prepared by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration to define a new framework for the inclusion of new professions in the aforementioned catalog represents an opportunity for this claim that they have been raising since 2017.
The two unions and tourism entrepreneurs have indicated that the central Executive's proposal, reflected in the draft decree advanced this Wednesday by a Madrid newspaper, contemplates that the incorporation of new professions in the catalog that makes early retirement possible must be proposed by social agents.
"This circumstance undoubtedly occurs in the Canary Islands in the specific case of cleaning ladies, given that there is total agreement between the representatives of the workers and the employers in the sector regarding the need to include this professional group in said catalog, for objective reasons related to the nature of their work and the physical wear and tear it entails," the note highlights.
This joint proposal contemplates early retirement at age 58 for cleaning ladies, after twenty years of practice in said professional category.
For CCOO, UGT and the FEHT, the initiative of the Ministry of Social Security represents "an opportunity to finally turn a fair proposal on which there is total agreement in the sector in the Canary Islands into reality."
For unions and employers, this would be a "sensible, viable measure that favors the quality of employment and the sector itself in the islands", for which they have urged the Ministry to "live up to the expectations of cleaning ladies with facts, incorporating said group into the new catalog of especially dangerous trades".
