Élise Denjean, edited by Solène Delinger
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8:34 p.m., January 16, 2022
End of wage negotiations in the hotel and catering industry. The verdict is due to fall on Monday January 17 after several weeks of bitter discussions between trade unions and employers’ organizations. The sector, which has lost more than 230,000 employees since the start of the crisis, wants to be more attractive. And it is therefore an increase of 16.33% on average that will be applied.
It’s the end of wage negotiations in thehotel and catering
. The verdict is expected Monday, January 17 after several weeks of tough discussions between unions and employers. To show off more attractive
, the sector, which has lost more than 230,000 employees since the start of the crisis, will apply an average increase of 16.33%. The CFDT signed the agreement in early January. The CGT, the first union in the branch, will not sign it, but should not oppose it. Concretely, for a tier 1 employee, the increase will be around 4.10%, or just over 66 euros gross additional per month. This also means that all the levels so far below the minimum wage are going back above, flattening the salary grid which had not changed since 2018.
Unions want to go further
It is therefore a first victory for the whole sector, but this agreement on wages, which will have to be applied within four to six months, must imperatively be followed by negotiations on working conditions according to Stéphanie Dayan, national secretary at CFDT Services.
Priority number one for the union: “End overtime derogatory to the labor code.” Today, in the sector of hotels, cafes and restaurants, “overtime is paid at +10 and +20% while in the labor code, we are at +25% and +50%”, explains Stéphanie Dayan .
New negotiations to come
For her, the sector will not regain its attractiveness until this overtime system has been revised upwards. “There is no reason for employees to come to a sector where a lot of overtime is done when they are very poorly paid and increased.”
Other subjects on the table: compensation for cuts or even night work and weekends. A first meeting is scheduled for February 22. These new negotiations will run until the end of May.