On February 16, the 3F Privat Service Hotel og Restauration union and Horesta for employers reached an agreement to renew the collective agreement in the hotel and catering industry. It covers 60,000 cooks, waiters, room maids and receptionists. Signed for 3 years, it introduces a new wage system that is advantageous for skilled waiters, in order to get unskilled waiters (85 percent of the sector) to train. It also gives apprentices more influence over their working conditions and improves collective bargaining.
Economic part. In this industry, the final wage increase is determined in local agreements. The minimum wage increase is the same as the one included in the agreement renewing the manufacturing sector’s collective agreement (see article No. 8164), i.e. DKK 4.95 (€0.64) in 3 years, just like hardness compensation (genetillæg), which will be raised of 1.5 percent on March 1, 2014, 1.6 percent on March 1, 2015 and 1.7 percent on March 1, 2016. Also, apprenticeship pay will increase by 1.9...
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