Manifest letter from daughters and sons of domestic workers and day laborers whose objective was to trigger the policy of the common good, in which individual actions are essential for the well-being of the community. The letter seeks to get support so that domestic work is not considered essential and for maids contractors to release their professionals, thus, it would be possible to respect the social isolation requested by the WHO to control the pandemic, through paid leave.
According to the IBGE , professionals who provide domestic services – which may include maids, day laborers, caregivers, gardeners, caretakers – represent a total of 6.3 million workers. And only 1.5 million work with a formal contract, 2.3 million workers work without a formal contract and 2.5 million are day laborers, which makes them a vulnerable group in the pandemic .
The petition for the letter was made at the height of the pandemic and the authors reinforce that the largest number of workers affected were precisely those who were abandoned by labor laws. The day laborers in an even more precarious and vulnerable situation, without legal contracts that allow, for example, to negotiate an advance on vacation and others had to face even more obstacles in maintaining themselves and guaranteeing the safety of their family group, as they are paid per day worked.
The manifesto was signed by more than 131 thousand signatures and were three projects (PL 798/2020 and PL 651/2020 / PL 2740/2020) that addressed the issue without a final definition, but were judicially excluded from essential services. The projects had the support of less than 50 people on the websites of the Chamber and Senate. The group also created three hashtags: #QuarentenaRemuneraJa #PelaVidadasDomesticas and #PelaVidadeNossasMães.
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