ECJ EUROPEAN Cleaning Journal

The Spanish contract cleaning association ASPEL has called for the Government to modify the laws on deindexation and public sector contracts in the service sector.

"Modification of these laws would permit quality services to be offered throughout the lifetime of contracts," said Juan Díez de los Ríos, president of Aspel and member of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE).

This came after CEOE president Sánchez called on companies to "live up to expectations" and the announcement by the second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, of another increase in the minimum wage.

"We call on the government and in particular the Ministry of Finance, to modify its law on public sector contracts, and on the Ministry of Economy to reform its Law on Deindexation. It is essential that everyone rally round and that the entire burden of the changes we are being asked to make does not fall on companies' costs," said the president of Aspel.

"Show me the businessman who would sign a five-year cleaning contract where, in the first or second year, a governmental Royal Decree changes the costs, resulting in he then being bound by law to accept this, he assuming the losses that these changes cause him until contract end?" asked Díez de los Ríos.