One house cleaner lost all her clients. Another is worried about being infected if she goes to work. Neither will get paid if they stay home.
Lourdes Dobarganes, 54, works for over a dozen families in the San Francisco Bay area as a house cleaner, babysitter and caretaker for seniors. During the coronavirus pandemic and a regional order to “shelter in place,” all of her employers have told her not to come in to work. Not a single one has offered to pay her in the meantime.
So she’s staying home, without pay. Her daughter, who usually helps with money, is also out of work, because“This situation is hard — I need to pay rent, pay food,” Dobarganes said in Spanish. What’s worse, for house cleaners who are still asked to come in to work, their duties could expose them to the virus, as they“I’m worried about not going to work and I’m worried about going to work,” Betania Shephard, 33, who cleans homes in Philadelphia, said in Spanish. She cleans five family homes and nine apartments rented out as Airbnbs. So far one family canceled an upcoming cleaning and she hasn’t heard yet from the others, who may do so as well.
House cleaners don’t have the option to work from home — and they also generally don’t have access to employer-provided health care or paid sick leave.under federal and state laws, including rights like paid time off or pay for shifts that are canceled last-minute.
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