Collective agreement for employees in hotel, restaurant and leisure industry

The collective agreement for employees in the hotel, restaurant and leisure industry sets out minimum conditions for work in the sector. For example chefs, waiters, hotel employees can find what pay and supplements, working hours and holidays they should get.

The collective agreement for employees in the hotel, restaurant and leisure industry typically applies to workplaces such as:

• restaurants, cafes, pubs, night clubs
• catering companies and staff canteens
• convenience and manufacturing kitchens
• hotels and other accommodation  establishments
• spas and wellness centres
• camping and caravan sites, holiday and cottage parks
• rural tourism services
• service and transport stations
• bowling alleys
• holiday and course centres, congress centres
• promotion, sales, marketing and mediation of Finnish tourism services.

The terms and conditions of employment are minimums that employers must afford their workers. The agreement applies to all employees in the industry covered by the Working Hours Act.

Around 75,000 people in Finland do work that is covered by the collective agreement.

Negotiating parties: Service Union United PAM and the employers’ organisation Finnish Hospitality Association MaRa.