Court says that holidays must be paid at 200% in hotels contrary to AHETA's guidance

Union urges hotel workers to demand 200% holiday pay

Bárbara Caetano|Archive Photo

Hotel Dona Filipa workers will be entitled to receive payment for work done on public holidays, with an increase of 200%, since September 2017, decided the Labor Court of Faro. This court decision goes against an orientation that the Association of Hotels and Touristic Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA) had given to its members.

The sentence of the Labor Court of Faro arises following a lawsuit filed by the Union of Hotelaria do Algarve in 2019, on behalf of its working associates at the Hotel Dona Filipa, of the JJW Hotels & Resorts group.

The lawsuit came after the Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), at the union's request, carried out inspections "in several tourist establishments in the region and filed records on the companies "so that they pay workers for the work performed in a public holiday with the addition of 200%».

However, according to the union, the majority of companies refused "the payment based on an orientation of the Association of Hotels and Touristic Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA)".

The union's position «is supported by the extension ordinances issued by the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, relating to the Collective Labor Agreements signed between the Federation of Agriculture, Food, Drinks, Hotel and Tourism Unions of Portugal, which structure affects to CGTP-IN and of which the Algarve Hotel and Catering Union is a member, and the Portuguese Hotel and Catering Association and the Portuguese Hotel, Catering and Tourism Association, which stipulate the obligation for AHETA members to respect the conditions laid down in these Collective Labor Regulation Instruments in relation to the members of this union».

The Union of Hotelaria do Algarve, in a statement, «welcomes the action of ACT and this important court decision for its associated workers and urges them to claim payment of the amounts owed to their employers and to inform the union in case the companies refuse payment”.

 



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