Pledges
Pledge formulated by EFFAT - European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture, and Tourism (3)
Pledges
Publishing organisations:
EFFAT - European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture, and Tourism
Relevant countries:
Belgium
Organisation types:
Academic/Research and VET Institutions
EFFAT - European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture, and Tourism
Topics
Belgium
Academic/Research and VET Institutions
Company with 250 or more employees
Consumer / tourist organisation
Cultural and Heritage Organisations
Destination Management & Marketing Organisations
EU institutions
Financial Institutions and Investors
Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce
International Organisations
Local authorities
Media/Travel Journalist Organisations
National authorities
Networks and Federations / Confederations
NGOs / Non-profits
Regional authorities
SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)
Trade Unions
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Specific types of tourism
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Adventure tourism
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Coastal, maritime and inland water tourism
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Cultural tourism
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Ecotourism
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Education tourism
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Festival tourism
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Gastronomy tourism
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Health and medical tourism
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MICE tourism
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Mountain tourism
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Religious tourism
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Rural tourism
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Sports tourism
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Urban/city tourism
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Wellness tourism
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Transition Pathway Strategic Areas
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Equal and fair tourism jobs
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Business activities
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Activities of amusement parks and theme parks
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Activities of associations and other organisations supporting tourism
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Air passenger transport
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Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks
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Events catering and other food services
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Festivals, cultural and entertainment activities
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Gardens and nature reserves activities
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Holiday Housing / Apartments and other short stay accommodation
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Hotel and similar accommodation
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Mobile beverage services
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Mobile food services
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Museums
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Operation of historical sites
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Other
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Other accommodation
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Other amusement and recreation activities
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Other food and beverage services
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Other holiday reservation services
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Other tourism transportation activities
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Rail Passenger transport
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Recreational and sport activities
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Restaurants, cafes and bars (Food and Beverage serving activities)
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Road passenger transport
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Tour operator activities
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Travel agency activities
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Water (sea, coastal and inland) passenger transport
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In the EFFAT Position Paper "Fight labour shortages in hospitality-tourism by improving the attractiveness of jobs" (attached), EFFAT outlines what measures need to be taken to ensure fairness and equality in tourism jobs:
• Put workers and quality jobs first
• Improve working conditions and pay
• Strengthen collective bargaining
• Give workers a voice
• Ensure regular and predictable working time
• Rethink outsourcing / subcontracting / franchise
• Keep daily room cleaning in hotels
• Improve vocational education and training
• Promote apprenticeships
• Ensure the hospitality sector is a safe place to work
• Guarantee workplaces free from sexual harassment and violence
• Ensure gender equality and diversity
• Protect and organise seasonal and migrant workers
• Ensure fair digital and green transitions
• Promote social labelling
• Foster year-round tourism
• Rebuild tourism with a more sustainable and socially responsible vision
These goals have to be implemented through social dialogue, collective bargaining and workers' participation at all levels, which EFFAT and its national trade union member organisations are involved in / pursuing.
The objective is to ensure that tourism is an attractive sector to work in by providing better social and economic conditions to its workforce.
EFFAT will:
- in 2023-2024, draft action plans on how to address the proposed measures and how to accomplish their successful implementation, at European and national level
- in 2023-2024, continue to discuss proposed measures in the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committees in hospitality 3 times per year (2 Working Group and 1 Plenary meetings) and try to get joint commitments on items the social partners agreed to focus on, at European level, and subsequently at national level
- in 2023-2024, share the position paper with managements of transnational companies and European Works Councils in hospitality TNCs
- in 2023-2025, report annually about the achievements on the implementation of the measures
- in 2025, evaluate the progress made and report back to member organisations, social partners and the TTP / expert group
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Publishing organisations: FU-TOURISM
Relevant countries: Belgium
Organisation types: Academic/Research and VET Institutions
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Publishing organisations: European Transport Workers' Federation
Relevant countries: Belgium
Organisation types: Academic/Research and VET Institutions
- Categories
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Publishing organisations: TripLegend - Travel The World GmbH
Relevant countries: Germany
Organisation types: Academic/Research and VET Institutions
- Categories
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