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Apprenticeships - swept under the rug
30th of June 2017
UK reporter Lynn Webster discusses apprenticeships in the professional cleaning sector.
With the Apprenticeship Levy having come into effect on April 6, any issues and wrinkles are probably still being dealt with. Introducing a whole new system of payment is difficult enough, and plans to maximise the impact of this 0.5 per cent self-investment
Allies in corporate social responsibility
5th of June 2017
UK reporter Lynn Webster discusses the issues around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The Financial Times defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as “a business approach that contributes to sustainable development by delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for all stakeholders”.
For CSR to be as
Italian food hygiene project
2nd of June 2017
Anna Garbagna reports from a recent tourism exhibition in Milan, attended by Afidamp.
Cleaning industry association Afidamp was present recently at BIT tourism exhibition in Milan. Distributors from Afidamp’s world were in fact among the key players on the stand of APCI, the Professional Association of Italian Chefs, with the role of
Cleaning Paris’ transport network
2nd of June 2017
Cleaning contracts for the entire Paris transport network are worth €80 million a year, reports French correspondent Christian Bouzols.
Cleaning operations for the whole RATP network (tubes, busses, trams and their stations) in Paris represent a market worth €80 million a year. This is the money required for the maintenance of 1.3
Collective agreements of the future
2nd of June 2017
Jacco Vonhof, chairman of the Dutch Association of Cleaning Research (VSR), reports on negotiations on working conditions in the Netherlands.
At the beginning of this year employers and employees in the Dutch cleaning sector undertook renewed negotiations on working conditions. Agreements on wages, bonuses, overtime payment, probation or pension
Cutting cleaning hours in Swedish hospitals
31st of May 2017
A pilot study is giving Swedish hospital cleaners shorter working hours for a year-and-a-half. This report from Scandinavian correspondent Lotte Printz.
Playing football or doing exercise workouts has a positive impact on health. That’s hardly a surprise. But a recent study carried out by the Danish National Research Centre for the Working
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