CCOO and UGT have called off the five days of strike in the hospitality industry in the Community of Madrid (December 25 and 31 and January 1, 5 and 6) after reaching an agreement with the Madrid Hospitality employers’ association, represented by Hostelería Madrid , Noche Madrid and the Madrid Association of Restaurant Companies (AMER).
As reported by union sources, the hospitality agreement includes a salary increase of 15% over three years. Specifically, an increase of 6% for 2023, retroactively from July 1, 5% for 2024 and 4% for 2025, reports Europa Press.
Likewise, it has been agreed that, in workplaces with 50 people or more, the weekly working hours may not exceed 44 hours. Regarding overtime, there will be cash compensation with a 100% surcharge on the ordinary hour, unless there is an agreement for compensation in free time at a rate of 1.5 hours for each overtime hour.
In the section on promotions, unions and employers have agreed to a reduction from ten to four years for the salary promotion of assistants and auxiliaries. Disability or death insurance of 18,000 euros for these contingencies is also reduced from ten to four years of seniority in the company (previously it was 14,000).
In addition, there will be mandatory training which, if not provided, will penalize companies that do not carry out training plans by paying 20 euros per month to the affected people.
Regarding discontinuous permanent employees, one of the main differences between unions and employers, their part-time regulation has been agreed upon. In addition, they will have a minimum daily workday of four hours.
Regarding extra services and during the Christmas season, there will be a minimum annual working hours guarantee of 60% over the previous year. Likewise, workers will have the possibility of rejecting three calls without losing their contract.
In the rest of the services, the minimum guarantee of the annual working day will be 60% of the previous year, which may not be less than 60 working days per year.
It was last Saturday when CC.OO., with the support of UGT, decided to call five days of strike in the hospitality industry of the Community of Madrid due to the “stalled” in the negotiation of the Collective Agreement for Hospitality and Tourist Activities in the region after eleven months of meetings.
After reaching an agreement at the Regional Institute of Mediation and Arbitration, CC.OO sources. They have stressed that “necessary steps have been taken in the right direction to achieve better and greater professionalization of workers in the sector.” However, they have assured that they will “monitor” effective compliance with these measures.
For UGT, this agreement includes “substantial improvements, such as salary, promotions and the regulation of discontinuous permanent employment.” Likewise, sources from this union have asked the employers to “reflect so that they continue to improve the conditions of a sector that needs stability.”
For his part, the president of Hospitality Madrid, José Antonio Aparicio, celebrated in a statement that, with this agreement, the 32,000 companies in the sector in the region “will have a stable labor framework until 2025, a fundamental situation to continue being engine of economic activity and job creation”.
