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1. The police were summoned by an auto dealer. A car was missing. The culprit? A janitorial service employee that had been cleaning up after-hours. Grabbing a set of keys that had been left in the drop off box, the crooked worker matched key to car and drove off. Eventually law enforcers discovered the abandoned car, severely damaged due to an auto collision.
2. Though the janitorial company that sent their cleaning lady to an attorney's office for after-hours cleanup never would have suspected her of thievery, when the woman found two unsealed packets of cash in an unsecured desk, she could not resist the temptation.
3. It was the very first day of employment for one nighttime custodian in a bank. Unfortunately, his actions made it his very last day as well. Robbing the institution's vault of fifteen thousand dollars in cash, the loss was a colossal one. The janitorial service that employed him was responsible for the losses and damages. How does this type of specialized Insurance bond help a janitorial service along with its clients?
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A recent ban on cleaning high-rise windows is not sufficient to protect Hong Kong’s domestic workers from exploitation, campaigners argue after a shocking photograph recently emerged of a helper cleaning a window at a 15th-floor apartment in the Mid-Levels.
The government this week revealed details of a new clause to be added to all domestic helper employment contracts, prohibiting them from cleaning external windows above the ground floor unless the window is fitted with a secure grille.
The ban, proposed by the Philippines Consulate, was initially delayed for one month to allow Hong Kong lawmakers more time to establish the specific wording of the new clause.
More at source: South China Morning Post
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In North Jersey over just a four-week period, two kids in separate cases were hospitalized after ingesting an industrial cleaning product that was brought into the home by a family member.
Both children are expected to make a full recovery, but poison experts are urging parents to be more cautious about the products they bring indoors.
In each case, a commercial stove cleaner/degreaser was taken home by a family member who works in a restaurant, according to the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System. The product was transferred into a typical container, such as a water bottle, making it even more appealing to young eyes.
“Whenever we hear about a child who drinks or ingests an industrial strength cleaner, we get much more worried because we know it can have a very devastating effect,” said NJPIES Medical Director Dr. Diane Calello.
More at source: New Jersey 101.5
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EDWARDSVILLE — The County Board earlier this month awarded a new contract for janitorial services at some county buildings after the present service provider, Advanced Outsource Solutions, received multiple complaints in recent months.
At its Oct. 19 meeting, the Madison County Board voted to approve a contract with CR Systems in lieu of exercising an option to extend the current one-year contract with Alton-based Advanced Outsource Solutions, a subsidiary of Challenge Unlimited. The current contract pays $232,602; CR Systems submitted the low bid of $230,000 this time around, which includes providing janitorial services to the county’s administration building, courthouse and the Madison County Health Department building in Wood River, among others.
The county’s Buildings and Facilities Management Committee voted in September to not renew the contract with Advanced Outsource Solutions. On Tuesday, Madison County Administrator Joe Parente said multiple customer services issues were reported since the company began cleaning county buildings last year.
“Any time you change janitorial contracts, there’s a period of time, a transition period, and the staff attempted to work with the management during this transition period. They never were able to get things quite right,” Parente said. “It was basically customer service-type issues — things not being cleaned, lights being left on, just a wide variety.”
More at source: Advantage News
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Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.
The former television entertainer’s campaign has been a roller coaster of triumphs and pitfalls, but his love for hyperbole has never wavered.
With him in the White House, Mr Trump has said, his supporters are going to "win so big" they will soon be "sick of winning".
More at source: Telegraph
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Ron Munsey works at Peter Woodbury School and has started vacuuming designs into a carpet at the school.
Angie Perron Wyand sent WMUR some pictures of Munsey’s work.
"Every morning, the students and I come in to school and find some amazing design vacuumed into our carpet," said Wyand.
More at source: WMUR
Liang Zhao Zhang’s job is to clean up BART stations in downtown San Francisco and clean up he does: He swept in $162,000 in overtime pay last year, records show.
Call Zhang the super janitor, an extraordinarily high earner in a field where the beloved school custodian rarely brings home more than $50,000 a year.
Zhang grossed $235,000 in 2015, four times more than his base pay as a janitor. Benefits brought his total cost of employment at the rail agency to more than $270,000. And records show this isn’t the first time he raked in six-figure compensation at BART. Zhang received a combined $682,000 in pay and benefits over the last three years.
“Where do I sign up?” joked Lionel Hsu, a BART rider on Tuesday.
More at source: Mercury News
Not since we first watched Fight Club have we been as interested in soap as we are now. That’s in part thanks to research being carried out at the University of Minnesota — where scientists have created a new soap molecule that promises to be far more environmentally friendly than existing products made by the giant cleaning products industry.
“Our research team has invented a new soap molecule that is made from renewable resources and works in a broad range of conditions,” Paul Dauenhauer, associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science, told Digital Trends.
These “renewable resources” include natural products such as soybeans, coconut, and corn, compared with existing soaps that are made from fossil fuels. Such soaps are regularly mixed with harmful chemicals in order to produce shampoos, hand soaps, and detergents.
A new cleaning service launched last week is called "My Model Maid," and it's exactly what it sounds like.
The company is a customized housecleaning service, and all of the "maids" are models, and willing to wear virtually whatever you'd like.
"You select the maid, her attire (French maid, schoolgirl, cheerleader, Wonder Woman or special requests ) and a time that’s convenient for you," the website advertises.
More at source: FOX
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