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 – [email protected]
Chair: Lone Sögaard Nielsen (3F, Denmark)
Deputy Chairs: Eva Eberhart (VIDA, Austria) and Murat Bakindi (TOLEYİS, Türkiye)
On 18 September 2020, the European social partners in the contract catering sector, EFFAT and FoodServiceEurope, had a meeting with OIB, the European Commission’s Office for Infrastructure and Logistics Brussels, to discuss the current call for tenders for the...
EFFAT, ETF and UNI Europa, cooperating in the European Trade Union Liaison Committee on Tourism (ETLC), are signatories to the European Tourism Manifesto Alliance, and support the Commission proposal for a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in...
With more and more countries progressively lifting their lockdowns, opening borders, and reopening businesses, tourism enters a phase of recovery, and EFFAT is convinced that it is now time to rethink tourism and to promote the sector with an innovative sustainable...
The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, the voice of the European travel and tourism sector, issued on 20 May 2020 the following statement on the European Commission’s guidance on how to safely resume travel and reboot Europe's tourism in 2020 and beyond. Available...
EFFAT deems encouraging the intention to coordinate the relaunch of a strategic sector of the economy, yet stresses the Commission's weak ambition on workers’ participation and social partners’ involvement EFFAT welcomes the Tourism and Transport Package published by...
The hospitality-tourism sector is one of the major players in the EU economy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector is facing an unprecedented crisis which is putting the viability of companies and employment at risk. Thousands of companies are struggling to...
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, advise companies and employees to follow all necessary health and safety measures...
By Kristjan Bragason, EFFAT General Secretary (Originally published on OpenCorporation blog, 19/04/2020 - also available to read in Italian) The spread of Coronavirus is first and foremost a health crisis, and our hearts in EFFAT go out to all those who have lost...
The Coronavirus is changing the world and the way people live together. Measures to contain and combat the COVID-19 pandemic have inevitable consequences on the working conditions of all workers. Being responsible to guarantee daily food supply to Europeans, EFFAT...
Low pay, uncertain hours, sexual harassment in the workplace and anti-union management: these are only some of the poor working conditions faced by thousands of fast food workers worldwide and some of the basic reasons for their increased protests and strikes in the...
