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This happened in Australia. It was very difficult to find a house cleaner last year, and it's still a challenge now. Quotes were $40-50/hour or more. If you wor

by prawn 5y ago

This happened in Australia. It was very difficult to find a house cleaner last year, and it's still a challenge now. Quotes were $40-50/hour or more. If you worked for yourself as a contractor (most cleaners), you only needed to demonstrate that your income had dropped some percentage from the equivalent period 12 months ago, and you could claim $600/w. Scrub toilets every day, or get $600/w to sit at home... Or get paid cash and still claim the $600. On the other hand, a very simple/easy system meant that the process wasn't overly onerous at a time where other contractors were legitimately missing a lot of business due to pandemic restrictions.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
Where is the evidence this is actually happening at a significant scale? Anecdotes are not data.
- prawn 5y ago
  I'm talking to the person upthread, not presenting an economic paper. We asked a number of people for cleaner recommendations and many had a similar story of struggling to find someone, their cleaner taking leave from work, etc. I'm not fighting against stimulus. It was critical for many businesses forced to close or copping follow-on impacts of that. My business took significant hits as lockdowns started and I received stimulus payments (and kept working on what work was coming in).