Hospitality collective agreement
Hotels fall under the same national hospitality collective agreement: working time, premiums, minimum wages and rest periods are set there, and both rostering and payroll have to know it.
Definition
The difference from a restaurant lies in shift work: night duty at reception, split shifts in housekeeping, seasonal peaks. Rest periods and premiums thereby become a daily calculation rather than an exception.
In seasonal businesses fixed-term contracts are added: joiners and leavers pile up, and with them the pro-rata entitlements to holidays and thirteenth month’s pay. Calculating that by hand means calculating it twenty times for twenty seasonal staff.
Where to read it
What the software must be able to do
Check: shift rostering with rest-period validation, premiums by time of day, pro-rata entitlements on fixed-term contracts — and a report that reflects the agreement and not just the Labour Act.
Checked Aug 2026
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