Domestic cleaning will not be protected by pretending the informal market does not exist️
By Ivan Shyla, Co-founder of CleanWhale
AlgorithmWatch is right about one thing: domestic cleaners need more safety, more transparency and more protection against abuse. But the article starts from the wrong policy question.
The real question is not: how do we force domestic cleaning into the standard employment model? The real question is: how do we move as much domestic cleaning as possible out of cash-in-hand work and into a visible, insured, taxable and accountable market?