Mallorca hotel cleaners' early retirement under review

Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands: hotel room cleaners could retire early if new rules are approved, but for now the government is only planning a working group. Spain’s minister for inclusion, social security and migration, Elma Saiz, announced the group to examine a lower retirement age and the recognition of illnesses linked to the job. The CCOO union welcomed the move in a statement from Palma, Mallorca, on 9 November 2026.

The group will consider rules known as reduction coefficients, which would let cleaners retire earlier. CCOO wants them to do so without losing money. Neither those rules nor the proposed recognition of work-related illnesses has been approved.

The union formally asked for earlier retirement for hotel room cleaners in 2021. Last July, it again called for sector-wide talks to move the process forward. It says parliamentary initiatives in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands have also pressed for the change.

Other measures are already in place. Beds that can be raised are compulsory in tourist accommodation in the Balearic Islands. In the Canary Islands, motorised trolleys and time measurements have been introduced to match workloads to actual working hours. CCOO says these steps strengthen the case for early retirement, but the planned working group must still examine the rules.

Topics: Jobs & labour · Politics

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com