After deducting those fees, plus taxes and insurance costs, Jan-Pro of New Mexico would cut a monthly check to Maria and Samuel for their cleaning services, which amounted to about $5,600 in net monthly income earned by the couple for their seven assigned customers.

But when the Guidos unexpectedly closed the doors without warning in June 2020, Maria and her husband were left to fend for themselves to keep their cleaning business alive. They scrambled to retain their customers, offering to continue cleaning the clients’ offices independent of the Jan-Pro brand. But overnight, four of their seven customers — which Maria and Samuel had paid $10,000 to the Guidos to obtain — canceled their contracts.

They weren’t the only ones affected. When the Guidos shut down their operation in the midst of the pandemic, it thrust a network of local franchise operators — most of them Spanish-speaking immigrants like Maria and Samuel — into a prolonged crisis that many are still grappling with today.

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A Chicago janitorial company headed by clout-heavy businessman Rick Simon is suing City Hall in an effort to hold onto a deal at O’Hare Airport under which it’s been paid almost $200 million over nearly a decade.

Simon’s United Maintenance Company Inc. says Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration is violating city and state procurement and contract bidding procedures.

The suit, filed Oct. 8, says City Hall plans to give half of the work at O’Hare that Simon’s company has been doing to ABM Industries, Inc., one of the nation’s largest janitorial businesses, which has faced a series of lawsuits filed by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing ABM of failing to protect female workers from sexual violence ..

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A new mutated version of the COVID Delta variant spreading in the U.K. could be 10 percent more transmissible than Delta, researchers think.

However, it's too early to say whether this strain could be more evasive to immunity than Delta and it also doesn't appear to be taking over as fast as Delta did from Alpha.

The variant, which has been given the label AY.4.2, appears to have branched off from the Delta AY.4 sub-variant by gaining two mutations known as Y145H and A222V. Both have been seen before in previous COVID variants but at low frequencies.

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The summer surge of U.S. coronavirus cases has started to ebb after exposing the grave danger the virus still poses in areas where large swaths of the population lack immunity.

A nationwide decline in new infections and hospitalizations is fueled by sharp drops in Southern states that were hit hard by the highly contagious delta variant. Hospital admissions nationwide crested above a weekly average of 100,000 in early September and are still at levels not seen since the winter, before vaccines were widely available. New infections plateaued in the first half of September, averaging above 150,000 daily, and are now on track to slip below 100,000.

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