Mosfellsbær orders iClean to hand over cleaning records
Wednesday 28th October 2026 on 17:45 in
Iceland
Mosfellsbær has formally ordered cleaning contractor iClean to give union Efling documents about its workers’ pay and working conditions by October 30, mbl.is reports. Efling chair Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir welcomed the move but said the town should have acted sooner.
Hilmar Gunnarsson, the town’s mayor, apologised in an email if Efling’s inquiries about cleaners’ working conditions had been passed between staff without a response. “I’ll take responsibility for that and make amends,” he wrote.
Hilmar said he wanted to work with the union and that the town would not deny Efling access to any records it was entitled to receive. He also said he had been in the job for just over four months and was still learning about the issues. The town’s legal counsel would be its contact with Efling.
Efling has requested records to check the conditions of iClean staff who clean buildings run by the town. The union is seeking, among other things, work specifications and information about how much time workers are allocated and paid for each task.
Hilmar has denied that the town is withholding information. He said iClean had not yet provided the requested documents and that the town had no records it was refusing to share. He acknowledged that replies may have been delayed, inquiries passed between staff and personnel changes made.
Efling has also criticised the town’s oversight of the outsourced cleaning service. Union representatives inspected three primary schools this autumn and, according to Sólveig, found six iClean employees working without workplace identification cards. At Helgafell School, they also found a person who was not employed by iClean working there with an access card to the school.
Mosfellsbær said in a letter that iClean had reported making improvements related to workplace identification cards and had addressed the incident at Helgafell School. Efling has asked the town to use its contract with iClean to obtain records that would allow the union to verify workers’ pay and workload.