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Folded microfibre still effective
29th of December 2023VSR has been researching cross-contamination from folding microfibre cloths, writes John Griep.
VSR has been researching cross-contamination from folding microfibre cloths for some time. I wrote about this last year after it was found that micro-organisms spread from a dirty surface to clean surfaces by the folding method. The microfibre cloth
Flexi cleaning on road to success
28th of December 2023ECJ’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 2023Towards 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 2023A 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 2023TheEU 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 2023Sweden'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