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Why Is Legally Protecting Overworked New York Maids So Difficult?

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Caitlin Kelly writes of a pending New York State law to protect the rights of 200,000 domestic workers such as nannies, housekeepers and elder-care givers, more than 90 percent of whom are women of color or immigrants.

This law would stop house keepers, nannies and elder care givers from being exploited by the families that employ them.   This is a good thing for professional maid services like You’ve Got MAIDS who make it a policy to treat home cleaners with respect & dignity.    Since it cost money to treat your staff right, this law will level the playing field.  More importantly it’s also a good thing for the maids.

This law will grant New York maids the right to take off one day off a week, among other new liberties that most of us take for granted.  At You’ve Got MAIDS our house cleaners enjoy nights and weekends off.  We even pay our home cleaners holiday pay, plus paid vacation after one year.  We didn’t need a state legislature to mandate this; we do these things because it’s the right thing to do.

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The Maid Film Review

The MaidCatalina Saavedra stars in the central role as Raquel in Sebastian Silva’s movie “The Maid.”(Elephant Eye Films)

Every once in awhile — not often, but it happens — a film appears out of nowhere that doesn’t go where you expect it to go or do what you expect it to do. The Maidhas that particular gift of leaving you off balance in the best possible way, and whenever something like that comes around you owe it to yourself to check it out. Click here for the rest of Kenneth Turans movie review of THE MAID at the Los Angeles Times.

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The Maid Cleans Up With Critics

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The Maid Cleans Up With Critics

(Newser) – Sundance darling The Maid, directed by Sebastián Silva, is a Chilean black comedy focusing on a longtime employee’s struggles with her employers and a succession of new maids. Critics say it’s an absorbing character study with an impressive lead performance.  [read more]

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Sunshine Cleaning – Another movie about Maid Service

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Sunshine Cleaning

A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning. Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film about an average family that finds the path to its dreams in an unlikely setting screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Academy Award nominee Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah, (Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their dad Joe (Academy Award winner Alan Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other specialized situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find a true respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another no matter what while creating a brighter future for the entire Lorkowski family.

Perhaps movies like this will do for maid service, what Rocky did for boxing.  You never know.

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Maid Service Cleans Out Courtney Love

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Can you believe Courtney Love tried to stiff her maids?  Now that’s just wrong Courtney.  House cleaning is hard work and your maids deserve to be compensated.  TMZ reports one small step for maids, one giant leap for maidkind.

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UK Attorney General, Baroness Scotland Breaks Her Own Law

It’s not just in the colonies where people can get in trouble for hiring undocumented employees.   Brittan’s Attorney General, Baroness Scotland is in deep trouble for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.

Before becoming Attorney General, Lady Scotland served as the Home Office Minister and personally steered the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 through the House of Lords. She had to know better!

You’ve Got MAIDS could have saved the day for Lady Scotland.  At You’ve Got MAIDS we only hire documented employees who are authorized to work in the United States.

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GREEN CLEAN

In our ever changing world many people are taking small steps to save our earth. You’ve Got MAIDS® has taken the initiative; we’re proud to be both environmentally friendly and price competitive with companies that are not bio-friendly. It starts off with the phone estimate. Customers prefer this convenient and straightforward method which also conserves fuel and paper. In fact, most of our correspondences are over the phone or via email. We further lower our fuel consumption and carbon footprint by having our maids carpool to your house. Green cleaning your home with microfiber cleaning cloths, HEPA filtered vacuums and non-toxic cleaning products is a step in the green direction.  After all, it is the sum of the smaller acts that gives way to the greatest results. On behalf of the staff of You’ve Got MAIDS® thank you for partnering with us in our vision to protect our planet.

RESIDENTIAL MAID SERVICE

A professional residential maid service is a business which provides house cleaning for homeowners who do not have the time nor desire to clean their own homes. Residential maid services have become increasingly common in America with an industry growth rate of 20% a year.

RESIDENTIAL CLEANING SERVICE

A professional residential cleaning service, like You’ve Got MAIDS®, may be a few more dollars than a part-time independent under the table maid(normally between $0.71 & $1.42 a day), but it offers numerous advantages. We provide screened, trained, bonded and insured maids that bring all of the necessary cleaning supplies. In fact, when you hire us, you can delete cleaning products from your shopping list. Also, as a bona fide employer, You’ve Got MAIDS® is responsible for withholding Social Security income taxes, Medicare Tax, FUTA & SUTA. Most importantly You’ve Got MAIDS® worker compensation insurance insulates you & your family from personal injury attorneys.

RESIDENTIAL HOME CLEANING

You’ve Got MAIDS® strives to deliver more than expected each time. We get it.  A lot of residential home cleaning service providers over promise and under deliver. At You’ve Got MAIDS® we want long term relationships with our customers, and our goal is to under promise and over deliver.

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If you notice the maids do something that makes you happy, let them know. Better yet let us know by clicking our feedback button.  We care.  Your compliments are words of encouragement… like sunshine to your maids…they will not grow without it! Our CEO reads each and every piece of feedback before forwarding it to the local franchise office.

At You’ve Got MAIDS® we understand that communication is key, and we welcome all feedback…not just the good stuff! We carefully review and share everything with the maids in a construction manner. The good to great feedback gets shared at the morning meeting in front of everyone, and might go on our Wall of Fame! The not so great feedback is reviewed in private, and goes into the employees file.  As a company, we consume feedback for breakfast, lunch and dinner.