S.F. could be first to mandate paid sick leave for house cleaners, nannies [sfchronicle.com]

Donielle Prince 10/28/2110:26 AM

By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2021

Mirna Arana was pregnant and didn’t feel well.

But if she didn’t clean houses, she wouldn’t get paid. So she went to work. She kept cleaning even as cramps racked her body. Then she began to bleed and eventually miscarried.

House cleaners, nannies and others who work in private homes rarely get paid sick leave, sometimes forcing them to choose between their health and their paycheck.

Now San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the nation to create a way for domestic workers to have paid sick days, via an ordinance being introduced Tuesday by Supervisor Hillary Ronen and co-sponsor Myrna Melgar.

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