NH Hotel Group: establishes an EWC

The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) has announced an agreement was signed last week that puts an EWC in place for the hotel chain NH Hotel Group. A overview of this agreement is outlined below (the text is currently available in Spanish).
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“This ambitious agreement goes beyond current national and European legislative standards and ensures tight cooperation with the EFFAT member organizations as well as the assistance of an EFFAT coordinator who will attend all meetings,” underlined the press release that also highlighted the EWC’s right to its own competences, third party expertise, and training for its members. Competences encompass the examination of the business’s economic and financial development, issues over employment (ne

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