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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
Twitter and building an audience
1st of June 2017
Laura Napper, managing director of Twilight Cleaning and Facilities Management, continues her series of exclusive blogs about social media for the ECJ website. Here she offers tips on making the most of using Twitter.
Opportunities for innovation - enter the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017
31st of May 2017
Sandra Sieber, professor at IESE Business School University of Navarra, writes for ECJ. Sieber was the keynote speaker at the inaugural European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards in Barcelona last September.
If you get some of the leading cleaning companies from across Europe together in a room and ask them about the use of technology in their
ISS receives highest rating possible on world's best outsourcers list
30th of May 2017
For the fifth year in a row, facilities services provider ISS has achieved the highest possible rating on the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) Global Outsourcing Top 100 list.
Every year IAOP releases a ranking of global outsourcing companies across all industries and ISS once again received five stars - the highest
The stranger behind the mop
26th of May 2017
Are your cleaners actually who they claim to be? Ann Laffeaty asks contract cleaners how they optimise safety and security – both for customers and for the cleaners themselves.
Cleaners are an invisible workforce. They glide silently around our hospitals, schools, hotels and airports, cleaning up our messes often while we sleep.
But who
World’s deadliest superbugs found on the London Underground
25th of May 2017
London's tube network is a "hotbed of bacteria" where nine of the world's most dangerous superbugs are flourishing, scientists have warned.
Researchers from London Metropolitan University tested the hand rails, seats and walls of tube trains across the capital in order to assess their cleanliness. They found a total of 121 different types of
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