'I cry before work': US essential workers burned out amid pandemic Essential workers reported stress caused by increased workloads, understaffing, fears over Covid and struggles in enforcing social distancing A Walmart employee wears a mask at a store in Burbank, California. .
The mask policies adopted at restaurants, bars and eateries have given sexual harassers another way to prey on food service workers, accord- ing to a new report from the One Fair Wage advocacy group that sur- veyed more than 1,600 workers in six localities including New York. Customers have demanded that female food service workers remove their own masks so they could see their faces and “implicitly determine their tips on that basis,” according to the report titled Service Workers’ Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19. More than 250 of the survey respondents shared representative com- ments from customers: “Pull that mask down so I can see if I want to take you home later,” and “Take off your mask so I can stick my tongue down your throat.”
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