{"id":149934,"date":"2025-09-20T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149934\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:08:09","slug":"minimum-pay-rates-to-increase-for-contract-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149934\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum pay rates to increase for contract cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum rates of pay for workers in the contract cleaning sector are to increase under a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO).<\/p>\n<p>It will take effect from 17 October and will provide for a new minimum rate of \u20ac14.10 per hour, up from the minimum wage rate of \u20ac13.50 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>It will increase again on 1 January 2026 to \u20ac14.80 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased to sign this new Employment Regulation Order which will provide a welcome and deserved pay increase for workers in this important sector,&#8221; said Minister of State for Employment, Small Business and Retail, Alan Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remain strongly supportive of the State&#8217;s collective bargaining and wage setting mechanisms, and the important work of the Joint Labour Committees,&#8221; Mr Dillon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Employment Regulation Order is an example of how effective the committee system can be when negotiations are entered into in good faith by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank the members of the Joint Labour Committee for the Contract Cleaning Industry and the Labour Court for their work in delivering this positive outcome,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minimum rates of pay for workers in the contract cleaning sector are to increase under a new Employment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-149934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}