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[quote=Anonymous]Tough OP. Our weekly live-in housekeeper/cook moved in during the lockdown. We gave her the option to leave with full pay for 3 months plus 3 weeks paid vacation if she did not want to shelter with us. She was due to travel to her home country for 3 weeks just as the lockdown hit but she had to cancel the trip. She decided to stay and work and take her vacation after the lockdown which we then thought might be a couple of months.
As things started ease she wanted to start going home every weekend again where she has a landlady whose family, she says, visits regularly, visit a friend with a new baby, her family etc. She insisted she would be be careful but after listing all the things she wanted to do I just was not comfortable but I could not stop her so I said as much and that unfortunately it would be best if we parted ways under the same terms we had suggested before the lockdown. The thought of worrying about what she was up to while away was just too stressful but I didn’t feel right imposing my risk comfort on her. 
After about a week she said she would like to take her 3 weeks of vacation and return afterwards. It could have been her way of saying she could not accept my terms of SIP any longer but needed a while to look for another more flexible position or she really does want to come back. I told her to call me to discuss before she comes back.
She’s been gone 1.5 weeks and I’m pretty sure I will not have her back at this point with the way things are trending with the virus.
Just too risky for us. 
We will have to wait until after the virus is under control to get another housekeeper.

I haven’t cooked or done housework for as long as I can remember so it’s hard but I don’t work so I’m just about coping.

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