CCOO ties the record for a Spanish tourist to their precarious employment – Yahoo Finance Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) urged on Wednesday the Spanish Government to promote a pact for tourism to defend one of the engines of the economy of the country, saying that the records of the sector accompanied by a “labour exploitation” which he called “B-side” of Spanish tourism.

“The workers in the sector are suffering record job insecurity, poverty wages, externalizaciones indecent and immoral blockade of the sectoral collective bargaining and increased burdens of work and of the underground economy,” said CCOO in a report on the evolution of the sector since the beginning of the crisis, in 2008.

tourism accounts for 11.2 percent of the Gross domestic Product of Spain, and gives employment to 1.4 million people, after they beat the last year, a new record high of 75.3 million tourists.

Since 2008, the union estimated that the number of visitors to Spain has increased by almost 20 percent, while the squares has done so by about nine percent, despite the fact that the employment in hotels has barely grown since the crisis in a 0,63 percent.

“there can be No sustainable tourism without a decent job, it is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow,” said secretary of services of CCOO, José María Martínez, during the presentation of the study.

According to official statistics collected by the union, nearly 40 percent of workers in the tourism sector have temporary contracts and a 42 percent is part-time, which, according to CCOO hides a “widespread fraud”.

The union attributed to the labour reform of 2012 a large part of the increase of precarious work in the industry and urged to limit and regulate the outsourcing of services, which normally involve a substantial lowering of wages to the contract workers.

it is Currently in process of parliamentary approval of a legal reform to ensure equality of working conditions of the employees contract with their professional group, but José María Martínez considered that the initiative was short.

“it is Not the solution, then would have to apply it, and one of the biggest problems of the employment framework is the lack of inspections,” he said.

The union predicted a period of “hot” prior to the summer and with mobilizations in the case of still blocked thirty collective agreements to be negotiated in the sector, according to CCOO affect about 700,000 workers related to the tourism.