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Better working conditions for ‘kellys’
NEW legislation has been passed to improve working conditions for hotel room cleaners.
Establishments will now be required to specify the maximum number of rooms that each ‘kelly’ as these workers are known in Spaincan clean during their regular working day.
UGT and Comisiones Obreras, is to put an end to the excessive workloads and abusive conditions faced by these employees.
lands this summer.
ens up the conditions for ejecting nonpaying tenants including the possibility of delaying evictions for up to two years.
“All this discourages owners from renting out their properties, which means that all these build to rent projects could finally end up for sale,” predicts the association vicepresident.
The aim of the ruling, presented jointly by the Balearic Islands Government, the Mallorca Hotel Business Federation and trades unions
Controls will be carried out this summer to ensure that hotels are abiding by the rules, although the unions admit that it will not be easy to guarantee that the conditions are kept.
An estimated 20,000 ‘kellys’ are expected to benefit from the measure throughout the Balearic Is
PALMA’S Municipal Sports Institute (IME) will save more than €700,000 a year on electricity bills thanks to a new contract signed this week with the municipal energy board (EMAYA).
It is the latest in a series of local bodies to switch to EMAYA, after the municipal children’s school board and the housing board.
The IME is one of the council departments with the highest electricity consumption, accounting for more than 6 per cent of the town hall’s total.
Its yearly bill was higher than €2 million, but thanks to the new deal signed with EMAYA it will drop to €1.3 million according to current market prices. The savings are expected to be even greater once the INE’s
Balearic Islands President Francina Armengol declared during the presentation of the new ruling at the regional government headquarters in Palma that she is “proud that a tourism law agreed by all parties for the first time focuses on the health of workers.”
Sra Armengol added that the next step is to extend this type of legislation to all other hotel sector employees.
