There are an estimated 2.5 million domestic workers across the country. Most don't have access to healthcare and 83% do not get paid sick days
For years, the housekeepers have met every morning at a Westwood cafe for coffee and conversation before starting their workday.
On a recent weekday morning, Doralicia Bermudez sat with a handful of women topping yuca with curtido that someone brought in for breakfast. A family she works for canceled on her over fear of coronavirus.Companies across the U.S. have been urging employees to work from home in response to the growing viral outbreak in the country. But for many caregivers and domestic workers, that’s not an option.
Housekeeper Dora Mayen boards a bus after meeting for morning coffee with other housekeepers at a cafe near UCLA before heading out to work in homes in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. For Carmen Solano, a Brentwood housekeeper, the subject of coronavirus hasn’t come up with her employers. In the fall, Solano wasin a neighborhood that was under mandatory evacuation because of the Getty fire.
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