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UK well placed to weather recession
28th of November 2011
ECJ's UK correspondent asks how the industry can weather the recession.
Looks like the recession is really here. Reality in the form of lost jobs and falling incomes. The cleaning industry is better placed than most to weather the storm. We are labour intensive on the contract side so maintaining workforce levels should not be a problem provided
Safeguarding the Polish cleaning sector
28th of November 2011
Poland reporter Marek Kowalski asks how the cleaning sector can survive the economic crisis.
The whole of Europe is struggling with a crisis. Politicians meet at another summit wondering how to rescue the European economy and the common currency. Bankruptcy is looming over a number of European economies.
How about the cleaning industry? Although
Successful cleaning services meet in Italy
28th of November 2011
Italian correspondent Anna Garbagna reports from a cleaning services meeting in Rome recently.
Last month FISE’s (the contract cleaning association) office in Rome hosted the seminar 'Cleaning and integrated services – the sector’s prospects in light of the new work contract CCNL and the new public contracts
Dutch responsible conduct code encourages cleaning best practice
25th of November 2011
Earlier this year, the Dutch contract cleaning association OSB introduced a Code of Responsible Market Conduct for the cleaning and window cleaning sectors. This came about as a result of strike action by the country's cleaning staff early in 2010 and was drawn up by various industry organisations.
The Code of Responsible Market Conduct for the
Trained to clean in the Netherlands
25th of November 2011
Recently started secondary schools in cleaning are slowly becoming successful, explains Dutch reporter Anton Duisterwinkel.
Children often have a clear idea of what they want to do for a living: fire fighter, school teacher or vet, for instance. For teenagers, life is much less clear-cut and they often have a hard time selecting one of the many
Final thoughts from Tom Crockford
25th of November 2011ECJ's Scandinavian reporter Tom Crockford writes his final column.
This is my final column as this magazine’s Scandinavian Correspondent. After over 12 years of commenting on the professional cleaning scene in this part of Europe, I have decided to retire. I do hope a replacement can be found soon.
Scandinavia has long been a pioneer of
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