Move to cut cleaning hours and introduce robots sparks controversy

A row has broken out in Northern Ireland over plans to slash the number of cleaning hours carried out by humans in civil service sites - and introduce robots to take up the slack.Contractor Aramark has proposed cutting 1,535 cleaning hours per week across 162 sites according to Ryan Wilson from the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance. He claims the plans could result in fewer staff members being asked to do more work while robots are brought in to replace them.At one site - the Department o