Author: Simon Carter

Productivity across the UK hospitality industry has fallen, with the key measure of sales per labour hour sitting at £34.01 a 62p reduction since May 2017 dropping as low as £30.65, when analysing the restaurant sector alone. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/quick-fix-discounting-in-the-hospitality-sector-hits-productivity/ News from FM World

Carillion has exited a long-term support services deal for the Royal Bank of Scotland two years early, it has emerged. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/carillion-quits-rbs-maintenance-contract-two-years-early/ News from FM World

UK-based Bibby Marine Services Ltd has awarded Sodexo a two-year contract to provide catering, housekeeping and laundry services for the new custom-designed Bibby Wavemaster 1 vessel, with the option to extend this to other vessels after a year. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/sodexo-casts-off-for-two-year-bibby-marine-services-deal/ News from FM World

A report by Young Women’s Trust to mark the midway point in the government’s apprenticeship target has found that two in five apprentices spend more money completing their apprenticeship than they earn and women face an 8 per cent gender pay gap. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/two-in-five-are-paying-to-do-apprenticeships/ News from…

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a landmark increase in the London Living Wage today, from £9.75 to £10.20 an hour a 4.6 per cent rise and the first time the wage has been more than £10. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/mayor-signals-landmark-rise-in-london-living-wage/ News from FM World

Incentive QAS, the specialist cleaning arm of Incentive FM Group, has been awarded a three-year contract by CBRE to provide a range of dedicated cleaning services at The Cube in Birmingham. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/incentive-qas-secures-deal-at-iconic-birmingham-building/ News from FM World

Facilities management company Arcus has extended its service delivery providing reactive maintenance services to home, garden and leisure retailer The Range. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/arcus-is-home-on-the-range-with-bespoke-fm-deal/arcus-extends-fm-delivery-to-the-range/ News from FM World

Waste crime costs the UK £560 million each year, according to research. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/endemic-fly-tipping-costs-the-uk-about-560m-a-year/ News from FM World

Simi Gandhi-Whittaker has stepped down as chair of the Women in Facilities Management special interest group. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/furey-takes-over-as-chair-of-wifm-special-interest-group/ News from FM World

A Croydon councillor has said that if the borough’s libraries service provider Carillion collapses, the council will move its frontline staff back in-house. http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/croydon-councillor-criticises-carillions-service-to-boroughs-libraries/ News from FM World