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"Kellys" demand early retirement: "I'm 63. Cleaning beds in a five-star hotel is a slaughterhouse"
Maria Ibáñez was born 63 years ago in Colombia and has lived in Spain for the past 30 years. For the last 25 years, she has worked as a floor attendant in Madrid. She would like to pre-judge her retirement due to the number of musculoskeletal ailments she suffers from, but her limited insurance claims history and precarious financial situation prevent it.
"Cleaning beds in a luxury hotel is a slaughterhouse," she emphasizes about the five-star establishment where she currently works. "There is a lot of pressure. The customers are of high level, pay a very high price for the room and want everything to be perfect. If a floor attendant can clean up to 20 beds in a daily shift in a mid-range hotel, I can only clean up to eight rooms, but the cleaning of each of them can take me 40 minutes."
Ibáñez is especially upset with the treatment of workplace insurance funds. "They do not record any of my diseases because for them they are not the result of work or the effort I make every day, but they classify them as common illnesses. They only establish that a person is ill and can take a leave when they have a broken arm or leg."
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