cleaning person

Cleaners on a Chinese train platform

Train cleaner in Berlin

A cleaning power (even cleaners , cleaning , cleaning lady , janitor or cleaning lady is) a person who to pay cleaning work carried out.

history

While in earlier centuries only wealthy middle-class or noble families employed maids who, among other things, also cleaned the “manorial” household, today households with particularly heavy occupational stress are dependent on such services in the private sector . The job there is usually carried out as a sideline and by the hour, often without a tax card or insurance cover (see also domestic staff , illegal work ). In a survey in 2015, only 36 percent of those questioned stated that they had also registered their cleaning staff. The unreported number of illegal domestic helpers at that time was around four million people. In the meantime, digitization has also found its way into the area of cleaning staff. While a few years ago private cleaners were still found through personal recommendations or newspaper advertisements, today this is increasingly done online. In Germany, there have been various platforms on the market for several years that provide legal cleaning staff. In any case, these are legal offers. The cleaning staff either work as self-employed with a trade license or are permanently employed . In any case, the customer is on the safe side. However, the platform economy has also met with criticism. The cleaners who offer their services have to pay all insurance and social security contributions from their hourly wages. Here there is an increasing demand for the intermediary to take on social responsibility, as this offer often results in precarious work situations. The first providers have already implemented this.

In addition to vacuuming and damp mopping smooth floors, the job of a cleaning person includes sweeping , dusting and window cleaning. The waste and coarse cleaning up among them. “Cleaning crews” clean large buildings such as schools or companies.

terminology

Further, some slang terms are cleaner, janitor, cleaning lady, cleaning lady, hours wife, housekeeper, cleaning lady , cleaning woman, cleaning lady, cleaning staff, cleaning lady, plaster, pearl, cleaning specialist, cleaning force Spettfrau, Spetterin and charwoman.

Building cleaners

While cleaning staff are untrained unskilled workers, a three-year training course leads to the profession of building cleaner .

literature

Florence Aubenas : Plaster. My life in the dirt . Pendo-Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86612-282-6 .
Milena Moser : The cleaning woman island . Novel. Krösus, Zurich 1991; Blanvalet, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-36128-1 .
Justyna Polanska : Under German beds. A Polish cleaning lady is unpacking . Droemer Knaur Taschenbücher , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-78397-9 .
Justyna Polanska: Not entirely clean. A Polish cleaning lady is cleaning up . Droemer Knaur TB, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-78544-7 .

Web links

Commons : Housekeeping - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Information on training and further education in the building cleaning trade

Individual evidence

↑ Survey: Germans mostly employ household helpers on the black. In: welt.de. July 24, 2015, accessed April 3, 2018 .
↑ Take responsibility for Uber, Helpling & Co. as an employer. In: dgb.de. March 20, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .

[1] Survey: Germans mostly employ household helpers on the black. In: welt.de. July 24, 2015, accessed April 3, 2018 .

[2] Take responsibility for Uber, Helpling & Co. as an employer. In: dgb.de. March 20, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .