SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Parliament of the Canary Islands has unanimously approved a series of urgent measures, proposed by the deputy of the Canarian Nationalist Group Jana González in a Non-Ley Proposal (PNL), to request specific measures to improve the working conditions of housekeepers in the tourism and hotel sector of the Islands.
According to the deputy, “the tourism sector is our main economic engine and its benefits have to have an impact on the well-being of these workers who, quite the contrary, what they suffer is that their workload has increased by 20%, and they are forced to to work unpaid overtime to complete the tasks assigned to them”.
This excessive physical effort, handling of loads and repetitive movements continue to cause diseases such as epicondylitis and carpal tunnel syndrome, which has led some courts to recognize them as occupational diseases.
Faced with this situation, the Canarian Nationalist Group requests the Government of Spain to increase the workforce in Labor and Social Security to “strengthen the Plan to Combat Labor Exploitation in the tourism and hotel sector”, and to include “greater surveillance of the working conditions of housekeepers”.
In addition, the implementation of control systems for monitoring the workload, a study of occupational health and action plans to improve working conditions and job security in especially precarious sectors are proposed.
For this reason, the Government of Spain is requested to update the table of occupational diseases to include those that affect housekeepers and “improve working conditions”, thus guaranteeing the health and social justice of these workers who contribute significantly significant to the tourism and hotel sector.
Jana González recalled that the last Legislature reached an agreement with the State to establish some study tables that would allow an adequate response to the demands of the collective, “and to date we do not know if progress has been made in this line.”
Likewise, the deputy insisted on the claim of equality plans where safe measures are articulated for those victims of gender violence who work in the same place as their abuser. “That was already requested by my colleague Nereida Calero a year ago and we do not know if any measure has been taken in this regard.”
