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Google free translation service: Deutsch, Français, Español, Svenska, Italiano, Português - About these links News onlineETLC launches new project in tourism 20 January 2010 Just in time for the end of the year, the European Union has approved the financing of this new project. Under the auspices of UNI-Europa, ETLC will continue to support European works councils in the travel and tourism sector and conduct a survey on the working conditions of tour guides and animators.Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the European economy. At the same time, companies face extensive requirements: to cope with the impact of the economic and financial crisis. It must be shown whether and to what extend the European works councils take up in this context the role assigned to them. One task of our project is the support of European works councils in this process. But again, it appears that a group of employees in tourism is excluded from transnational representation, information and knowledge about their rights, although they work for transnational tourism companies: tour guides, tour managers and animators. Many tour operators have relocated their tour guide organisations to Switzerland, from where the allocation of tour guides and animatores is steered. By this they are excluded from the labour laws in their countries of origin as well as from the coverage of EWCs. The Swiss labour law does not provide them with any support in their places of work outside of Switzerland. With regard to cost-cutting measures, they are helpless at the mercy of the employers. Here the second objective of the project comes in: to investigate the working conditions and work structures of these groups, and to develop proposals for improvement. A detailed questionnaire and measures on how to address this target group will be elaborated in the coming weeks. In this context, the ETLC website www.etlc-network.eu will be further developed to improve communication and information structures. For the project, the questionnaire will be made available for online-filling in, and a moderated forum for the group of tour guides and animators will be set up to give them a communication platform. The project is accompanied by a steering committee, which consists of Sabrina Demarchi (Uni-Europa), Kerstin Howald (EFFAT), Francois Ballestero (ETF), Marie Kihlberg Nelving (ETLC) and Manfred Semmler (ver.di). The results of the project will be presented at a conference in autumn. For more information please contact: Sabrina.Demarchi@uniglobalunion.org k.howald@effat.org Semmler-thurner@t-online.de
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