A judicial sentence has been handed down in favour of the workers' union UGT against Hotel Playa Granada over staff not being included in the ERTE.

An Expediente de Regulación Temporal de Empleo (ERTE) was the system brought in during the lockdown and the months following it to help employers maintain employment by, amongst other things, the State picking up the tab for employees Social Security payments.

It is a temporary layoff, amongst other things.

The hotel in question did not include seasonal workers when they applied for ERTEs for their staff, nor did they include nine that were due to receive the new work contract.

Seasonal staff have worker contracts called fijo-descontinuo meaning permanent employment most of the year; i.e., these workers are on the books and are guaranteed a certain amount of months’ work per year.

The tribunal agrees with the UGT that if these workers are on the books indefinitely, then they should have been included within the ERTE arrangement.

However, when Hotel Playa Granada applied for an ERTE for its employees, it did not include the workers that had still not been recalled to work, as their contracts stipulated, leaving them unentitled to government economical aid.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)