This is intensely weird, isn’t it.https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1263186310757564416 …
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The issue isn’t whether it’s ok to have a cleaner - it’s whether you should be expecting your cleaner to risk their safety and that of their family. If they said they wouldn’t feel safe, would you accept that and pay them regardless?
And there’s the power differential: the government advise workers to “discuss their concerns with their employer”, so you’re essentially left to the wolves in a precarious un-unionised work situation. It’s a class issue, as well as one of basic human decency.
If you don’t want to admit you’re an employer and are making decisions that affect safety and mortality, it’s easier to write dogwhistle homophobic articles about arguments @OwenJones84 didn’t make than clean your own kitchen.
The people I know who can’t work from home aren’t being afforded any clemency from employers, can’t afford to miss a day’s pay, so they’re going to work despite severe asthma, or when they’re sick, as cleaners and in care homes, & this has been the case since before lockdown.
Sometimes when people are confronted with being a decent human being instead of having an opinion they aren’t who they say they are and this is defiantly one of those times.
I see both sides of this and agree with neither or both. I am paying my cleaner not to come, but I resent this suggestion that we all have more time. Having kids home 24/7 takes far more time than commuting saves. Every time I hear about all the extra time I have I want to scream
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