“In order to survive, many domestic workers risk exposing themselves and their loved ones to COVID-19 by continuing to take public transportation and exposing themselves to their employers.” via WMC's the_fbomb
that her employer told her, “I have the free will to come or not, and that if I wanted to go by car I could leave it in her garage. She left the choice up to me, but if I don't go, I don't get paid. In another place that I work, on Mondays and Fridays, they said that they would dismiss me. But they said they were not going to be able to pay me.”
In order to survive, many domestic workers risk exposing themselves and their loved ones to COVID-19 by continuing to take public transportation and exposing themselves to their employers. In Rio de Janeiro, one of the regions most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, theof the coronavirus was a 63-year-old domestic worker.
Concerned about her mother’s health, Juliana França, the daughter of a domestic worker, started a movement called “” that calls for the right of domestic workers to remain safe without having to go through extreme financial difficulties.
Even among domestic workers who have been released from their work, many haven’t received payment. The movement also demands that employers, who have always been able to count on the service of these women to clean their homes, care for their children, and cook their food – these women who are “practically family members” – recognize the value of their work and pay them during this time so they can stay safe and maintain financial stability.
“The practice of social distancing should not be a privilege, but the right to maintain your safety and protect the health of your own family group. For this to happen, the employees – men and women – need to understand that paying for quarantine is beyond employment bond, is a matter of common sense,” said Jessica Meireles, an activist and actress, in anRecently parliamentarians in opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s government managed to demand that the government pay emergency aid to some workers.
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