Cleaner won't accept payment, and ideas

[Zazz101]

I am just looking for a bit of advice. I have a fantastic cleaner, due to the current issues I have asked her not to come for the next month, but I have offered to pay. However, she will not accept it. I feel extremely uncomfortable, as it was my decision to ask her not to come. Has anyone got any suggestions how I can get her to accept my offer of payment.

@Noeuf u ok hun?

As pp said ask her now for a deep clean when she's back & then pay double her hourly rate plus bonus.You might mess up a benefits claim for her & any partner whose struggling if you pay her.

Ask her to do ironing?

@Pentium85, if I was in this situation id be really annoyed/insulted someone had chosen to ignore me and force cash on me anyway, totally ignoring what I said.
If I was in this position and had said no, I would only have been being polite. If it appeared in my bank or in an envelope I would’ve been happy and grateful.
And when I did used to clean someone else’s house, including toilets and showers, I certainly did not feel like ‘a small business owner’.

Sorry - didn’t mean to @ you! And also bold fail. Ugh.

After many texts back and forth my cleaner has accepted payment for the next few weeks so at least she will have money to eat, that's if the scummy panic buyers leave anything on the supermarket shelves.

I’m in the same position with the lady who does my horses when I’m at work. She knows my work has stopped and I’m not sure if I’ll get paid. She said just to drop her hours, but I know she’s already struggling a bit, so I said no. I’ve said I’d keep her hours at normal for this month, reduce them a bit next month, and review after that.

Mine said she would rather earn it some how... I told her house much we appreciate her and need her when this is all over... she cried but accepted my offer.

OP can you frame it as just being in keeping with the government's scheme to support retention of furloughed workers (the 80% reimbursement of wages for companies who continue to pay workers even though they are not coming into work due to covid)?