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Spanish association ASPEL publishes annual report
21st of October 2024The Professional Association of Cleaning Companies (ASPEL) in Spain recently published the 2024 edition of its annual report 'Building- and Premises Cleaning Sector Data'. This highlighted the fact that the cleaning sector encompasses 1.07 per cent of the country's GDP - confirming it continues to be essential in the value chain of the other sectors in Spain.
Cleaning is also one of the top 10 service sectors in terms of employment: 2.6 per cent of the 19.7 million workers and eight per cent of the 6.8 million salaried service employees in Spain.
Juan Ignacio Beltrán, the new ASPEL president, explained: We will continue to be the voice of cleaning and we will continue to call for modifications to the law on Public-Sector Contracts (LCSP) and to the Law of Deindexation. Currently, contracts signed with the Administration cannot have their prices revised when costs increase and which very often flow from decisions made by the Administration itself (increase in Social Security contributions, increase in the minimum wage, possible reduction of working hours, etc)."
The report explains that the sector "grew in worker numbers in comparison with the previous year" and the number of affiliated workers now stands at 394,231. There were more than 17,750 cleaning companies in 2023, up by 93 on the previous year.