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Flexi cleaning on road to success
28th of December 2023
ECJ’s Lotte Printz takes another look at the flexible market meeting a Flex-job cleaner in Denmark.
One Monday morning at 8am, yours truly arrives at the old building where I used to study journalism. A building now a community and conference centre run by Skejby Rangers. It may sound like it, but this is not a football club, nor is my
EFCI attends EP hearing on social impact of public procurement
27th of December 2023
Towards the end of last year EFCI participated in a hearing, organised by the Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EMPL) to discuss the findings of a report on the social impact of the current public procurement provisions. For the first time, EFCI was
given the opportunity to present its views before the members of
Guest’s missing ring is found in a vacuum cleaner
21st of December 2023
A cleaner working at the Ritz hotel in Paris apparently managed to vacuum up a ring worth €750,000 with a vacuum cleaner, it emerged this month.
The owner, a Malaysian businesswoman and guest at the hotel, told police that she had left the ring on a table in her room before going out shopping in the city for a few hours. And when she
European stakeholders gather to discuss public procurement
20th of December 2023
TheEU social partner organisations of the industrial cleaning, private security and contract catering sectors gathered in Brussels recently to discuss the current state of EU public procurement provisions, their impact on the respective sectors and possibilities for improvement for the future.
These three sectors share significant common features
New collective agreement in Sweden for in-house cleaning
19th of December 2023
Sweden's Almega Tjänsteföretagen (the Service Employer Association) and Vårdföretagarna (The Association for Private Care Providers) have signed a new collective agreement with the Real Estate Employees' Association for cleaning work under their own auspices.
The agreement is applicable until October 31 2025, with a total
Health chiefs advocate bleach as norovirus rates rise among the very young
14th of December 2023
Norovirus is spreading rapidly in the UK among children up to four years old - and bleach-based products are being advocated to help stop the spread of the bug.
Data shared by the UK Health Security Agency has revealed that the number of norovirus outbreak has been increasing steadily since week 43 of this year. And one facility - the James Cook
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