The trade unions of the sector are calling for the closure of the restaurant stores tomorrow

Professionals in the industry are calling for the closure of the restaurant stores tomorrow, November 16th.

As the Panhellenic Federation of Restatory and Related Professions POESE notes in its announcement, the demands of the Sector are:

– Adjustment of fines and their transfer to the offender.

– Change of repayable advance to NON-repayable.

– Participation in decision making with participation in the competent committees.

– Energy cost and rent subsidy.

– Subsidy of employer contributions or suspension of employment contracts.

– Exemption from the payment of municipal fees.

– Reduction of VAT to 6%.

– Continuation of the subsidy of loan installments.

– New funding similar to those of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

Structural measures

1. Special Secretariat or Catering Chamber.

2. Resolving labor costs with special regulations in distortions of labor legislation that do not take into account the high intensity of additional costs of the sector (night, evening, holidays, weekends) and its uniqueness, in all jobs.

3. Rationalization of the industry with structural changes.

The Catering Professionals Circle also calls for participation and support in the strike, arguing that the industry is being instrumentalized. In a statement, it states that the industry since the beginning of the pandemic crisis, has shown full empathy and has contributed greatly to the protection of Public Health, strictly implementing (with few exceptions) all measures of self-protection of customers and employees. “Unlike other gathering places (see Church, stadiums, MMM), the catering industry has high vaccination rates despite the cost and inconvenience to businesses,” he said.