AIBU to cancel my cleaner

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Because of coronavirus. She cleans weekly for us.
If she is sick we will be too.
I feel bad doing it to her and we need cleaners services badly.
And yet, if she is ill we will be too.

So you are talking about in the future in the event that you are told to stay home from work. If you're going to be home and not working then I guess you won't need a cleaner?

Yabpr&u You are being pathetically ridiculously and unreasonable)

Maybe she won't want to clean for you in case you give her something?
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Yeah obviously this is one of the reasons to cancel her services.
Also of course I can clean myself, hence my question.
Not really sure what you are suggesting.

So you are talking about in the future in the event that you are told to stay home from work. If you're going to be home and not working then I guess you won't need a cleaner?
Well I will still be working from home (honestly, it makes almost no difference in my line of work) and would prefer her to do the weekly cleaning.
However my dilemma is also about taking her wages away.

OP, have you stockpiled toilet rolls, anti bacterial, pasta, rice and noodles?

Don't be ridiculous. She's the one keeping your house free of germs. She'll have the cleanest hands of all of you. She's not going to leave germs on surfaces, and she'll be wiping up the germs that you and your family have left on everything you touch (as we all do).

Maybe the NHS should sack all their cleaners too.

OP - you are batshit

You are an academic????

Mumsnet problems... thank your lucky stars you don't live in the real world DarlingOriginalPoster. Wow, just WOW. Honestly. Have a look in the mirror.

So will most of us by the end of this year.

Wait. What?

obviously a shitty thing to do to the cleaner.

Yes, it is!

However say you are told to work from home and schools are closed. Would you still employ a cleaner?

I would still pay him/her, even if I didn't want them to come to my house, due to my anxieties or otherwise. You will still be getting paid. Why shouldn't your cleaner?

Wait. What?
The conservative estimate is that between 40 an 60 percent of the population will have had the virus by the end of this year.
That’s reason for the government considering to close schools, stock markets falling, people working from home and the rest of “the hysteria” .

She’s probably the least likely person who you’ll come into contact with to have the virus.

Are you also planning to remove all other people from your life?

You will still be getting paid. Why shouldn't your cleaner?
I guess you are right.
In any case I will wait and see what happens in my workplace.

I honestly don't get it

Millions of people get the flu every year. Your cleaner has probably cleaned a house where a person has had the flu, and yet you've still employed her?

This is absolutely no different

YABVU

I’m a nurse. I might stay at home.

If you sack her because of your paranoia you need to carry on paying her. I assume you will still be paid?

“I am pretty confident we will soon be told to stay home (work in academia and there will be no next term).”

BULLSHIT. I work in academia and our institution hasn’t got planned closure and no one else I know in London has claimed their Uni is cancelling summer term. Absurd.

Reporting this. It’s obviously a troll thread.

And the lunacy grows ...

Depends what your agreement is with her / notice periods etc

If your agreement allows you to lay her off (without it being a necessity) then fine but you should at least pay her the notice period otherwise pay her for the full time she would be working for you

I think maybe you posted on the CV thread and were told you were BU?

She’s cleaning your house. She’s more likely to be protecting you from corona virus.

If it goes the way you're predicting, op, by sacking your cleaner, you're cutting off her earnings. She could find herself unable to buy food in the middle of a pandemic. Could you live with yourself knowing this?

Your cleaner may have started a thread asking whether she should consider withdrawing her services due to the threat of the C virus.

BULLSHIT. I work in academia and our institution hasn’t got planned closure and no one else I know in London has claimed their Uni is cancelling summer term. Absurd.

You are welcome to report but if you actually work in academia you probably know that the term is nearly over and most conferences planned for the break are being cancelled.
There was no official decision about the next term yet but I expect one to be taken given the situation (and indeed not cancelling or delaying it would be absurd)

Your cleaner may have started a thread asking whether she should consider withdrawing her services due to the threat of the C virus.
I wish. This would obviously solve the dilemma.