Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) in Lanzarote has issued a statement denouncing that the company Genser, S.L., with which the Be Live Experience Hotel in Costa Teguise contracted the outsourcing of its services, "continues without applying the resolution dictated by the Labor Inspection, where it demands compliance with the collective agreement for the hotel industry in the province of Las Palmas." In addition, the union has pointed out that the company has also "ignored" the request from the Labor Inspection to "pay all arrears from the beginning of the contract until today."
The Inspection report also requires "conducting ergonomic and psychosocial studies on all its staff, due to the excessive workload that each worker has," CCOO has pointed out. In this sense, the general secretary of the union, Vanessa Frahija Betancor, has assured La Voz that they have verified that "they work extra hours, because they don't leave at four, but at five, six, or six thirty."
Vanessa Frahija explained that in December "the room attendants were subrogated and outsourced to this company and that, from then on, the subrogated staff maintained their conditions, but Article 1 of the hotel agreement was not applied to the temporary staff hired, so they were paid 400 euros less."
They request the correct update of the category of workers
"The company has recognized that these workers must be governed by the collective agreement for the hotel industry of Las Palmas," CCOO has pointed out, adding that, however, "they have invented a trick to take away what belongs to the worker."
In this sense, the secretary of CCOO has explained that "from April, the temporary workers have been paid the difference of 400 euros, but the company has applied it incorrectly" because it "continues to place these workers in the category of cleaners and not in that of room attendants." Therefore, she has pointed out that they are still "missing 100 euros from December until now for those room attendants." "We are claiming that difference of 400 euros from December until now for each temporary worker, apart from the correct update of the category," the secretary has emphasized.
CCOO in Lanazarote, which has held seven rallies in front of the hotel, plans to carry out a mobilization on June 22, according to the general secretary. "CCOO Lanzarote and the CCOO Services Federation will not abandon the affected workers until their rights are recognized," the union concluded.
