Ceuta shields cleaning jobs against every contract change.

The Government Delegation in Ceuta has ordered the registration and publication in the Official Gazette of the Autonomous City of Ceuta (BOCCE No. 6,642, of 11 August 2026) of the Local Collective Agreement for the Building and Commercial Premises Cleaning Sector of Ceuta for the 2025-2029 period, whose Article 25 imposes the mandatory subrogation of the workforce in any change of service contractor, whether public or private. The document is registered under number 577/2026 (file 51/01/0009/2026), in the General Provisions section, starting on page 3122.

The text was signed on 31 July 2026, after the meeting minutes of the previous day, by the Confederation of Employers of Ceuta and ASPEL, on the employer side, and by the UGT and CCOO trade unions, on the labour side. The Government Delegate, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, agreed on 3 August 2026 to its registration in the Register of Collective Labour Agreements, in accordance with Article 90, paragraphs 2 and 3, of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of 24 March (Workers’ Statute) and Article 2 of Royal Decree 713/2010, of 28 May. The agreement is in force from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2029 and is binding on all cleaning companies established in Ceuta.

Mandatory subrogation in any change of contract

Article 25, entitled “Subrogation and assignment of staff”, establishes that subrogation shall apply in all cases of termination, loss, rescission, assignment or redemption of a contract, as well as in any change of service contractor, regardless of whether the client is public or private. The obligation even extends to the reversal of contracts to any of the public administrations and to cases of division, fragmentation or grouping of contracts, even when the legal relationship is established only between the party awarding the contract and the incoming company.

• All workers assigned to the contract pass to the new contractor, with the rights and obligations they had with the outgoing company.
• Subrogation applies to both full-time and part-time work and complies with the provisions of Article 44 of the Workers’ Statute.
• Excluded are cooperative members who do not have the status of worker members and self-employed workers, and there is no subrogation in initial cleanings without a maintenance contract.

Documentation and fixed deadlines

The outgoing company must provide the incoming company with the list of staff in electronic format and the documentation proving the employment relationship of each worker, with the following data:

• Full name and address, Social Security affiliation number, length of service, working hours and schedule.
• Vacations, personal days and leave taken, as well as any changes occurring in the previous six months.
• Type of contract and, where applicable, term of office of the union representatives.

In addition, the outgoing company shall provide the settlement of remuneration and proportional parts, and the certificate confirming that payments to the Social Security are up to date. The deadlines are fixed: delivery shall take place no fewer than five and no more than fifteen calendar days from the communication of the change of award, which communication must occur at least three business days before the effective start of the service. Failure to deliver within the deadline and in the required manner entitles the incoming company to claim compensation for the damages and losses caused.

Guarantees against rescissions and reversions

The agreement also protects the workforce when the client terminates the contract in order to provide the service with its own staff: if cleaning services are contracted again within one year, the new contractor must incorporate the affected staff, and if newly created positions are contracted, the client itself is obliged to incorporate the workers of the outgoing company. Likewise, the workforce is subrogated when the client moves its premises and awards the service to another company, and, in the event of temporary closure of the centre for a period not exceeding one year, workers retain their right to their post after the employment regulation procedure.

With this publication, Ceuta safeguards the stability of a sector marked by frequent tenders and rescissions of contracts, in which the rotation of contractors generated job uncertainty. Article 25 makes subrogation an obligatory rule with defined documents and deadlines, also vis-à-vis public administrations, and reinforces legal certainty for workers and companies in the cleaning sector.

Source: Official Gazette of the Autonomous City of Ceuta (BOCCE), No. 6,642, Tuesday, 11 August 2026, General Provisions, p. 3122 (official reference: No. 577/2026, file 51/01/0009/2026).