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Great Ormond Street cleaners win latest pay battle
17th of March 2022Hundreds of cleaners at Great Ormond Street have won their battle to be awarded the same pay and conditions as other NHS staff members at the hospital.
The agreement between the cleaners' union and hospital officials has averted a planned two-day strike.
Most workers at Great Ormond Street have historically received compensation for working
Asthma risk from cleaning products
16th of March 2022ECJ’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 2022Juan 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,
British Cleaning Council joins initiative against domestic violence
11th of March 2022The British Cleaning Council (BCC) has joined an initiative against domestic violence and is inviting the rest of the cleaning and hygiene sector to review and join.
It has become a member of the Employers Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA), a network of large and small businesses which supports employers to address the issue in the workplace.
India holds hand hygiene contest
3rd of March 2022Cash prizes and certificates will be awarded to the winners of a contest being held in India to promote hand hygiene.
The competition, being staged by the India Sanitation Coalition in collaboration with UNICEF India, aims to reward and recognise the country's hand washing pioneers.
Competition organisers seek to promote those product
One in four cleaners stop work due to sickness, union finds
1st of March 2022Large numbers of cleaners, security guards and people who work with machinery are regularly forced to leave their jobs early due to injury or ill health, new figures reveal.
According to the Trades Union Congress one in four cleaners and manual workers will quit the labour market before their retirement age due to health issues. This compares