Pay agreement ‘unsustainable for hotels’

The Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) stated today that unless there is a substantial improvement in its trading environment, the hotel sector will be unable to pay the increases included in the proposed national pay deal announced this morning.

The hotel sector is already committed, under the legally binding Joint Labour Committee system, on 16 October 2008, to a pay increase of 2.5%, - the final phase of the previous agreement.