The veranda of the Consolat de Mar, this Mondayl together with the Government, the trade unions and the Hotels Federation, ready Methodology that allows measuring the workload of housekeepers Balearic Islands, a measure by which the community is again ‘leading’, and whate More than 20,000 kelly will benefit. It starts with this group because “a woman always suffers triple”, President warned Francina Armengol.
In addition to the fact that an answer was given this Monday “Historical Claim” The socialist stressed that measuring workloads in the hospitality industry, the application of this tool “takes our place as a pioneer at the national level”. “Sara, Cristina and the others always” conveyed this need to the president. “Because of the profession deformation, because I am a pharmacist,” the government leader recalled, “the most important thing is people’s health.” Repeating the demands of this group to the president, they put themselves in his place and claimed that “it is not fair that we get an occupational disease by working”.
And it’s all about it a “very detailed, rigorous and scientific” methodology Armengol says that workers will also see “improved physical and mental conditions” in conjunction with the renewal of the accommodation contract, which has already been in effect for two days, which should be put into effect at companies this season.
“There is still more work to be done” regarding occupational diseases In front of an audience of mostly hotel workers, the President highlighted the chambermaids.
Ruben CastroThe secretary general of the Ministry of Economic Model, Tourism and Labor is tasked with presenting the work of the Balearic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety. (Ibassal), insisting that the tool emerges from “dialogue, consensus” and “rigorous, technical and scientific” work More than 50 companies participated.
How will it work?
Hotels will be established workgroups within each company, secondly, with workers and trade unions and representatives of the occupational risk prevention service. The type of tasks Kellys perform will be analyzed, depending on the room type, the routes they follow, whether it is a guest exit or normal daily cleaning, equipment (whether there is an elevator bed in the workplace or not). Castro explained that a consensus would be reached on how “safe” it would be to work this way. Taking into account the average cleaning time, the “maximum applicable load for health” will be distributed and will be made according to the hotel type. According to Castro, there are already companies implementing the method. North of Mallorca and in Cala Millor.
Minister Iago Negueruela stated that every workplace “effort” will be taken into account to clean the room, the bathroom, “how many times you bend over, the weight you lift” … and all this will work. maximum load with the number of rooms in each hotel. “Compulsory” “Before it affects workers’ health,” he warned. “HE tourism our industry”, Underlines the government spokesperson.
In the name of Majorca Hotel Management Federationexecutive vice president, Maria Jose AguiloHe began his speech by overlooking a “large group of experts” who were not there and collaborated on this methodology. “Target partner, we are all interested in the best conditions of the companies’ talents”, Aguiló, this “good practice guide” that will be disseminated to all departments, reduced accident rates and improved occupational health. “It is not standardization, but the adaptation of the work to the reality of every moment”, adds the hotelier representative. He also mentioned that two main issues should not be forgotten: “Recognition of occupational diseases and early retirement”.
“Pepper ignorance”
From UGT, Jose Garcia Relucio started to ask Vote for Armengol –“Let’s hope he continues as president for another four years”– and stressing that the tourism law is born of “social dialogue”. “There are not only chambermaids, there are waiters, there are waiters, there is a cafeteria, there is a bar… It will also need to be evaluated. “We will have a lot of work to do,” he warns, to put the mechanism into action. Unionist seized the opportunity to sue Marga Prohens, “a representative of PP aa that I haven’t seen around here”. Regarding his criticisms of rising beds, he attributed them to “pepera ignorance”. “He never made a bed in his life. They are not hiding, the first thing they will do is break the tourism law,” he warned.
on his behalf silvia montejanorepresentatively CCOO also mentioned that it started with chambermaids and “We will do the same in all functional areas”. “We’ll be in work centers measuring loads,” he says, and we’re “proud” that the Balearic Islands have become “a leading laboratory in protecting workers’ health.” Like Aguilo, Montejano occupational diseases Kelly’s and asked that “first of all, the partners know them” and also “they can retire a little earlier”.