Europe’s hotel, restaurant and catering sector features 1.8 million companies employing almost 10 million workers. Tourism is one of the few sectors of the European economy with a high potential for growth and job creation, particularly providing an entry into the labour market for young people. Given the high percentage of atypical employment in the tourism sector, the EFFAT mission is to promote decent and fair working conditions. EFFAT activities in the tourism sector include promoting improvement and recognition of qualifications and skills, socially responsible and sustainable tourism, and strengthening social dialogue in the sector to improve working conditions.
Political Secretary: Virginie Demoucron – v.demoucron@effat.org
President: José García Relucio, (FeSMC-UGT, Spain)
Vice-presidents: Andreas Gollner (Vida, Austria) & Dave Turnball (Unite the Union, UK)
Joint press release – ETF, ETUC, EFFAT, UNI Europa, IndustriAll Europe and ECA Brussels, 7 January 2022 The ETF, ETUC, EFFAT, UNI Europa, IndustriAll Europe and ECA welcome the Toulouse Declaration on future sustainability and decarbonisation in aviation, which was...
EFFAT joins this week’s Global Week of Action for Hotel Workers on 25-31 October 2021 under the slogan: Come Back Stronger/Regresar Más Fuertes With COVID-19 still raging, trade unions around the world are coming together this week to raise awareness of how hotel...
11 associations and trade unions representing the European hospitality industry and its value chain warmly welcome this week’s discussions at EU level on the survival of the sector. COVID-19 severely impacted the hospitality industry and its value chain, with...
The two-year European project “Workers’ influence on outsourcing, tender processes and transfer of employment contracts: watch the gap!” was carried out in partnership with EFFAT, ETF, EPSU, UNI Europa and Syndex. Its purpose was to analyse the implementation of EU...
HOTREC, the European umbrella association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafés, and its trade union counterpart EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, call upon the EU and Member States to prolong the EU and national funding as long...
Over 60 travel and tourism organisations unveil concrete recommendations for re-opening travel & tourism in Europe, including creation of Commission-led Task Force to restore freedom of movement. The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, a group of more than 60...
Coordinated COVID-19 measures needed to save jobs and upcoming summer season, say European aviation and tourism stakeholders. Brussels – 24 February 2021: Ahead of the 1 March Extraordinary meeting of Ministers of Tourism, 15 European stakeholders in aviation and...
The below signatories call for the immediate setting up of a hospitality task force across the EU Institutions to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on business and jobs and deliver a road map for the recovery of the hospitality sector and its value chain....
EFFAT, EFFE, EFSI and UNI Europa are delighted by the announcement that the European Commission is progressing with the acquisition of a large number of doses of an anti-Covid19 vaccine that will then be distributed to Member States[1]. The Commission’s prioritising...
Safe Work + Secure Jobs + Union Rights = Safe hotels . This past week Trade Unions across the globe have organized events around a global week of action for hotel workers. Under the slogan Safe Work + Secure Jobs + Union Rights = Safe hotels, EFFAT joined forces with...
