Collective agreement, 13th month, wages, working time, "
cut-off
" ... Employees of hotels and restaurants, awakened by the Covid crisis, are full of proposals to make their jobs more attractive and less painful, before branch negotiations ardently desired.
On Wednesday, the CGT and FO federal secretaries of the HCR sector (hotels, cafes, restaurants), in the majority, officially asked the Ministry of Labor to organize a permanent joint commission for negotiation and interpretation.
The CFDT and CFE-CGC, the other two representative unions, are also concerned about a labor shortage accelerated by the pandemic. “
This summer, we saw teenagers aged 15-17 replace employees,
” says Arnaud Chemain, from CGT Services. "
It is very worrying
". In his hotel, which has lost a quarter of its staff, two receptionists have joined the army and the others must also run the bar. The CGT Services therefore calls for the creation of a minimum wage of 1,800 euros, when Mr. Chemain estimates the median salary at 1,500 euros, a 10% increase in wages and the application of a 13th month.
Less categorical, FO wants "to
negotiate a whole
", according to Nabil Azzouz, the UNHCR Federal Secretary, ready to proceed in stages as long as "
the employers are sincere
". If there is "
urgency to rediscuss the grid, but not of 1 or 2%
", his union advocates the gradual establishment over several years of a 13th month so as not to weaken the cash flow of establishments. Mr. Azzouz is also campaigning for the generalization of a cut-off bonus, these hours lost between two services. "
In fast food, collective and for part-time, we grant 5 euros," he recalls. Over a month, that's over 100 euros
”.
He also proposes that the leaders organize themselves to grant “
one or two Sundays
” to their employees, some of whom “
have rediscovered their families during confinement
”. Employers who are not in a position to comply with the measure would then undertake, as for night hours and overtime which are rarely observed, to pay increased hours. “
Attractiveness is not just the salary,
” assures Cécile Mkavavo, president of CFE-CGC HCR. "
We must reorganize working time so that the working hours allow the employee to have time for him
".
"
What would bother the employee working four days, with a greater hourly amplitude, against three days off?"
“, She wonders, citing the example of young people who tell her they no longer want to work on weekends.
Her union would also like hardship criteria to apply to all operational staff, not just chambermaids.
Questioning
Finally, while the last two levels of a collective agreement dating back to 1997 have been under the minimum wage since 2018, the CFDT hopes to see the outcome before the opening of these negotiations a fight started more than a year before the Covid to dust it off. . “
It is completely obsolete. Coffee makers are still in it when this profession no longer exists
, ”protests Stéphanie Dayan, CFDT Services national secretary. "
We claim a significant difference between the different levels because there is currently a difference of one or two cents at the bottom of the grid, an overall increase of about 5%,
" she continues.
Still, the upcoming negotiations promise to be very complicated. Even if he admits that "
the working conditions and remuneration
" of the employees must "
be the subject of deep negotiation
", Didier Chenet, president of the GNI (independent establishments), says he was "
shocked
" by the words of 'Elisabeth Borne, who calls on the sector "
to question itself
". His employers' organization has nevertheless made a commitment to the Ministry of Labor to make proposals for the “
end of October
”.
A "
specific rate of charges must be applied to companies with a high labor rate
", and the threshold effects which penalize an employee, when an increase in his remuneration results in the abolition of aid (for housing or other) , must be examined, he pleads. The unions of a sector which weighs a million employees and 65 billion euros in annual turnover, however fear possible dissensions within the employers, broken up between the large groups, ultra-minority but more solid, and very small businesses.