Is this still #work or already #slavery?

source: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977654/future-of-work-restaurants-retail-hospitality

Susie Rivera, a home health aide in #Texas who helps her clients with “all the activities of daily life,” from buying food to using the toilet, works 80 hours a week for two separate clients. While one pays well and has good benefits, the other doesn’t. And the situation of poor pay and benefits has predominated her four decades in the #industry, leading to a severe shortage in the field that will someday affect us all.

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She says she can’t do things like give clients their veteran’s or elderly discounts since there’s no manager to authorize those decisions. “Because I can’t give them their discount, they don’t want to tip me. So I make $4 for those two hours they just sat there,” she said. Her server wage is $2.13 an hour (where the tipped minimum wage has been set since 1991). If tips don’t bring that up to $7.25 an hour (where it’s been since 2009), the company is supposed to make up the difference. However, that requires some onerous reporting to get, and she said in practice it doesn’t actually happen.

#USA #labour #fail #HumanRights #politics #economy #news #problem