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Inflation triggers wage increases
18th of October 2022 Article by Christian Bouzols
Christian Bouzols, ECJ correspondent in France, tell us about rising pressures on cleaning companies.
A new general wage increase of 2.9 per cent has been agreed in the cleaning sector, bringing to 5.5 per cent the total increases awarded for 2022. To this must be added a 27 per cent increase in the transport allowance given to cleaning workers. This was announced during the summer by the Fédération des Entrepri..
Recruitment - the biggest challenge
12th of October 2022 Article by Lynn Webster
The sector must tackle the issue of attracting and retaining staff, says Lynn Webster in the UK.
Recruitment is regularly ..
Can microfibre actually spread dirt?
3rd of October 2022 Article by John Griep
John Griep at VSR, our reporter in the Netherlands, gives us new insight into the microfibre cloth.
Can microfibre cloths cause dirt to spread? An odd question perhaps. After all, microfibre cloths are cleaning cloths and their purpose is to clean surfaces, not to make them dirtier. But, it is true. Microfibre cloths can indeed spread dirt. The microfibre cloth contaminates itself, so to speak, when the cloth is folded. This is c..
How crowd pullers affect cleaning
23rd of September 2022 Article by Lotte Printz
ECJ’s Lotte Printz in Denmark looks at the cleaning operation in the country’s holiday homes.
As high temperatures swept the country in August, making office work a sweaty business, one could easily dream the day away, longing for a holiday in a house by the sea. Perhaps, taking a look at cleaning of those holiday homes could suffice?
Holiday homes along the Danish coasts are crowd pullers for Danish tourism. ..
Cleaning of schools - learning from the mistakes of the pandemic
12th of September 2022 Article by Ian Ansermo
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, school children from aged 2-11 had one of the highest rates of infection of any age group. So were cleaning and hygiene standards within schools paying a contributing part and what lessons can now be learned to create a new hygiene culture?
Ian Ansermoz, head of operations for Fidelis Group which specialises in schools cleaning, writes for ECJ.
During the height of the pandem..
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