More than 50 members and suppliers attended the Building Service Contractors Association of Australia (BSCAA) New South Wales division’s AGM lunch, which was held at the ECCO Waterfront Restaurant in Drummoyne (Sydney) on 2 June.
6 June, 2016Spotless Group has begun testing the market for a sale of its laundries unit following its affirmation of ‘year-to-June earnings guidance in the wake of a sell-off in its shares last week’.
1 June, 2016Spotless was forced to reaffirm its earnings guidance but offered no explanation as to why its stock fell by more than 9 per cent on Thursday 26 May.
1 June, 2016Australian cleaners are set to receive a 2.4 per cent pay increase on 1 July 2016, following The Fair Work Commission’s decision to lift the annual minimum wage on Tuesday 31 May 2016.
1 June, 2016The Fair Work Ombudsman has recently taken legal action against cleaning services company Pioneer Personnel and its sole director Aaron Leigh Dickinson, for allegedly underpaying cleaners at a number of Myer stores.
30 May, 2016A Fair Work Ombudsman Inquiry into the housekeeping services of three of Australia’s major hotel chains has highlighted the need for lead businesses in the country to ensure that they have compliant labour supply chain arrangements.
23 May, 2016ISS Facility Services has won its first contract with Australia Pacific Airports Corporation to provide Work Safety Officer (WSO) services and establish an integrated, multi-service model at Melbourne Airport.
18 May, 2016United Voice has blamed the government’s annulment of the Commonwealth cleaning services guidelines for the four year wage freeze currently affecting cleaners at Parliament House.
17 May, 2016The Fair Work Ombudsman has called on cleaning contractors to pay greater attention to wage rates following a national campaign that found cleaning businesses continue to short-change their workers.
16 May, 2016The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that a senior public servant was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure lucrative taxpayer funded Sydney Harbour contracts for cleaning and pest control services.
11 May, 2016The CSSA has emerged with a reconstituted board of directors and executive management bodies as a result of industry encouragement and a growing stream of member organisations joining since the company’s official re-launch on 1 February 2016.
10 May, 2016A former Spotless Facility Services worker from Timaru Hospital in New Zealand has been awarded $15,000 in compensation after the company failed to protect her from workplace bullying.
5 May, 2016End of content
No more pages to load
Gary Oskay on: Industry Leaders Forum: Wayne Hill, CEO, RapidClean Group
John Ford on: Industry Leaders Forum: Joe Camilleri, Managing Director, Central Cleaning Supplies
Jasmine Soh on: Empowering the Oceania Cleaning and Hygiene Industry: INCLEAN Unveils Its Unified Magazine