2023-04-20 17:53:31
Los Waiters from Guipúzcoa will be the first in Spain obliged to sign in and out of work in a telematic registry to avoid possible “abusive days” thanks to a “historic agreement” reached between the employers’ association and the ELA union to renew the sector’s agreement.
The new obligation to control the hours in bars with six or more workers is included in the pre-agreement that will be signed tomorrow by the Association of Hospitality Entrepreneurs of Guipúzcoa and ELA to renew the labor framework that affects 17,000 workers in that province and that will give locals a year to adapt.
Despite the fact that many bars and restaurants in Gipuzkoa have a system for recording working hours since the entry into force in 2019 of the decree-law that required clocking in at work, its concretion in the new provincial hospitality agreement, the first in Spain that includes The measure seals a binding commitment for both parties.
Welcomed with “total normality”
The measure has been accepted with “total normality” by managers and workers of emblematic bars in the Old Town of San Sebastián who assure that “they have been using a telematic transfer system for years.”
“It seems good to me because it is a worker’s right and it is a duty of the employer to also comply with the law,” José Mari Agirre, from the Gandarias restaurant, assures Efe, who implemented a time control system with cardboard two decades ago, which later became digital.
“Now it is much more comfortable” since each employee works with a wristband, which marks the “time of entry and exit” and with which he accesses any “sales ticket” in a “very simple and practical” way, he explains.
The person in charge of this restaurant, which employs 57 workers and will reinforce its staff in the summer, understands that the “measure is positive”. “If the worker is comfortable, we all win,” he says agreed.
“It’s a fair measure,” agrees Ramón Elizalde, from the Antonio Boulevard restaurant, where there is also telematic time control through a digital bracelet. “We cannot make the staff dizzy, nor try to deceive anyone with overtime” that are registered in the system for their subsequent compensation.
Mirari Illarramendi, a worker at the Baluarte, also explains that they have worked with the same bracelet since the establishment opened its doors, thus The measure “does not imply any change” for this great venue located in the heart of the Old Town of San Sebastian.
Some workers in bars and restaurants in Guipúzcoa have not wanted to comment today on their working conditions before the media despite the fact that, according to the ELA complaint, some of them chain days of “more than 60 hours per week”.
Mari Luz Rodríguez, head of the ELA sector, highlights the importance of this pioneering measure to regularize working hours in the sector, which is part of an agreement that his union calls “historic”.
fear of inspection
“The important thing is the obligation for the time control system to be digital” since This prevents the use of “more vulnerable” methods such as, for example, “a sheet” of paper.
The ELA representative assures that in 2019, after the entry into force of the transfer decree, some bars implemented time control due to the “fear” of a Labor inspection but insists that “many” do not use them.
He estimates that of the 17,000 workers under the umbrella of this agreement barely a thousand have a time control system in bars or restaurants
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