Undocumented immigrant Juana, 24, from El Salvador looks from her one-room apartment on March 25, 2020 in Norwalk, Connecticut. She lost her job as a house cleaner and her husband lost his job as a painter due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic just keeps bringing out new ways people treat domestic workers terribly. At the beginning of the shutdowns, many employers unceremoniously dismissed their nannies and house cleaners and other domestic workers without notice, pay, or any indication of when or if that might change.

Now it’s been long enough to see disgusting behavior like the case reported by The New York Times where a family called their housekeeper back to clean their house without telling her that the entire family had had COVID-19. The only clue they offered was leaving the cleaner, Maria Del Carmen, some bottles of Lysol. After hours of cleaning, she found out from a neighbor.