Coruña Hospitality: doubts cleared regarding the 500 euro payment

The Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña publishes this Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in its issue number 216, the resolution by which the agreement of the joint commission of the collective agreement for the hospitality sector of the province of A Coruña is registered in REGCON and its publication is ordered. The minutes, signed on November 5, 2026, at the headquarters of the Galician Council of Labor Relations in Santiago de Compostela, clarify the regime of the single payment of 500 euros and the transport bonus. The resolution bears the signature of the territorial director of A Coruña, Juan José Couce Prego, dated November 6, and is processed under announcement number 2026/7301.

The agreement arrives three weeks after the same gazette published, in issue 209 on November 2, 2026, the full text of the sector’s collective agreement, with code 15000745011981. That text, of provincial scope, entered into force upon its publication in the BOP and takes effect from January 1, 2025, with a duration of five years, until December 31, 2029. It applies to all hospitality companies and establishments in the province, including tourist rental homes, to which the tables of the section for hotels, apartments, residences, and three-star hostels apply.

The agreement sets an increase of 3% for 2026, 3.5% for 2027, 3% for 2028, and 3.25% for 2029, all revisable according to the CPI and retroactive to January 1 of each year. To this is added a single payment of 500 gross euros, payable by October 31, 2026, at the latest, and a transport bonus of 30 euros per month.

The 500 euro payment is not a salary increase

The joint commission clarifies that the single payment of 500 euros provided for in article 6 of the agreement “does not correspond to a salary increase corresponding to the year 2025.” Therefore, those 500 euros are not applicable to the salary tables and will only be offset against those amounts paid throughout 2025 on account of the agreement.

The minutes add that the payment will be paid equally to workers who were in a situation of temporary disability during 2025 and to those who had their contracts in force during that year, always proportionally to the contract time and the working day.

The transport bonus does not allow for compensation

Regarding the transport bonus, the commission emphasizes that it “is not compensable with other salary concepts.” For the rest of the inquiries received on this matter, reference is made to the literal wording of article 6 bis of the agreement, which sets 30 gross euros per month without revision during its validity, paid in 12 monthly installments and applicable from October 1, 2026.

Regarding other doubts raised, the parties agree, without further specifications, to refer to the literal text of the collective agreement.

Composition of the board and registration procedures

The meeting was held on November 5, 2026, at 11:45 a.m., and adjourned at 2:00 p.m. The joint commission consisted of:

• On the business side, Esteban Iglesias Martínez (Unión Hotelera Compostela), Agustín Collazos Martín (Asociación Empresarial de Hospedaxe de A Coruña-Hospeco), Carlos Rodríguez Núñez (Asociación Provincial de Empresarios de Hostelería de A Coruña) and Emilio Vázquez Rey (Asociación de Empresarios de Hostalería de Ferrol e Comarcas).
• On the union side, Juan Manuel Carreira García and Ángel Fernández Pintor (UGT), José Francisco Mirás Pérez (CCOO) and Pablo Fragoso Dacosta, Almudena Castro González and Rubén Duruelo Cuerdo (CIG).

The registration request was entered into the registry and deposit of collective agreements, collective labor agreements and equality plans of the Autonomous Community of Galicia on November 5, 2026. The territorial department is competent to resolve it under Decree 147/2024, of May 20, which establishes the organic structure of the Ministry of Employment, Trade and Emigration. The parties delegate the registration, deposit and publication procedures before the labor authority to the authorized personnel of the Galician Council of Labor Relations.

According to the agreement itself, the joint commission is headquartered at the Galician Council of Labor Relations, meets once every six months and must meet within a non-extendable period of ten days at the request of any of its members.

This agreement resolves the most frequent doubts between the companies and the workers of the sector during the first months of the agreement’s validity. The clarification prevents the 500 euros from being computed as a salary base or the transport bonus from being absorbed into other concepts, two issues that directly affect the payrolls of thousands of people employed in the hospitality sector of A Coruña and their upcoming salary negotiation.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, no. 216, November 11, 2026, Autonomous Administration, pp. 1-2 (official reference: announcement number 2026/7301).