New Sick Pay Proposal For Domestic Workers Garners Support

San Francisco CA

02 November, 2021

7:06 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local November 2, 2021 After 13 years working for a housekeeping agency, Edina Ajin Perez decided in 2017 to go solo. She cleans two or three houses a day, working for a total of 15 clients, and generally business is good. A few weeks ago, though, one of Perez's newest clients surprised her. If Perez, 39, was ever sick or needed a vacation, the client said, she could still expect to be paid. "I was so happy," Perez said in Spanish. In four years cleaning houses independently, this was the first client to offer Perez sick pay. Typically, she said, "If I don't work, then I don't earn." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.