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Asthma risk from cleaning products
16th of March 2022
ECJ’s Lotte Printz on a study from Norway suggesting children whose mothers work with cleaning products have a high risk of having asthma.
The risk of children developing asthma, or other respiratory conditions such as wheeze, increases by as much as 71 per cent if their mothers have been exposed to large amounts of cleaning products and
2022 - EFCI looks ahead to challenges and opportunities
14th of March 2022
Juan Díez de los Rios, president of EFCI, looks ahead to the association’s activities for 2022, representing the contract cleaning sector at EU level.
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to address you in this first EFCI contribution to the ECJ in 2022, a year that we are convinced will still show the resilience and strength of our industry,
Cleaning is now out of the shadows in Russia
5th of January 2022
Oleg Popov of Cristanval, a cleaning company in Russia, explains how the professional cleaning sector there was in the shadows where taxation was concerned until recently. This has now changed.
The cleaning sector has been developing in Russia since the late 1990s. Until 2018, it was one of the most opaque industries. Therefore, the tax
Revisiting the new normal
4th of January 2022
Lynn Webster in the UK reviews the year that’s passed and asked what we have learned.
As we come to the end of another very different, if rather strange year there is time to reflect. Most of us have suffered in some way or another personally, professionally or in loss of business; often outcomes too difficult to contemplate. But are there
Cleaning jobs to escape prostitution in Sweden
31st of December 2021
Scandinavian reporter for ECJ Lotte Printz on a successful, socially responsible cleaning initiative
in Sweden.
What do prostitutes, a policeman and cleaning have in common? Well, read on and it’ll all be clear. This is not a bad dad joke, but a true story from Sweden!
The story begins about eight years ago when Simon Widén, the
Cleaning business helps to tackle illiteracy
30th of December 2021
French cleaning companies are providing literacy classes for employees, reports Christian Bouzols.
Some 2.5 million people in France are illiterate, which means they haven’t acquired sufficient reading, writing and numeracy skills to manage daily life situations on their own.
About half these people are employed. The cleaning sector is one
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