CCOO Servicios has valued "positively" the announcement made this Monday by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, Elma Saiz, regarding the launch of a working group to move forward with the implementation of reduction coefficients for the retirement age of housekeepers, known as 'kellys', as well as to address the recognition of occupational diseases associated with their work.
The statement, issued at the headquarters of CCOO in Palma de Mallorca, represents a "first step in a historical claim" that the CCOO Services Federation has been advocating for years through trade union action at workplaces and dialogue with public administrations. For some time now, CCOO Servicios has been calling for the "particularly arduous nature" of this occupation to be recognized.
In 2021, the union pushed for a formal request to allow early retirement for housekeepers and, last July, it again demanded the convening of the sectoral dialogue table in order to activate the procedure for applying retirement reduction coefficients provided for in Royal Decree 402/2025.
At the same time, the organization has highlighted its "institutional work" that has contributed to the approval of various non-legislative proposals in the parliaments of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, in which the implementation of these corrective coefficients is urged.
The federation has stressed that its actions have not been limited to demanding early retirement, but that it has also defended the adoption of preventive measures and regulatory changes to reduce workloads and safeguard the health of housekeepers.
In this vein, CCOO has led changes in tourism regulations in the Balearic Islands, where the requirement for adjustable beds has been imposed, and in the Canary Islands, where motorized carts and time measurement systems have been incorporated to adapt workloads to actual working hours.
"For CCOO Servicios, these advances make the path easier toward recognition of housekeepers as an arduous profession, with the right to early retirement without economic loss. If achieved, it would be the first feminized profession included in the list of activities with reduction coefficients," the union has said.
"The creation of the working group constitutes a first advance, although it still does not entail the approval of the reducing coefficients. CCOO Servicios will continue working in the group that is constituted, with the clarity and perseverance maintained up to now, to obtain recognition of the reducing coefficients for retirement and the inclusion of the diseases of hotel housekeepers in the table of occupational diseases regulated by Royal Decree 1299/2006", it has added.