Stoic advice: Do I keep paying my cleaning person during self-isolation?

P. writes: Do I have a duty to pay my cleaning woman during the time that I cannot let her into the house because in view of my age I am self-isolating? I normally pay her by the hour, and before the crisis she had been coming in for three hours every week.

The utilitarian answer is, clearly, yes; she needs the money, she is unlikely to find alternative employment at the moment, and obviously I can afford to do this otherwise I would not have hired her in the first place.

Is there a specifically Stoic angle to this? Is there a counterargument that I have not seen? Would it be appropriate for me to offer her 80%, matching the UK government’s provision for those in formal employment, rather than 100%? I think she might find that more acceptable.

Stoics — unlikely utilitarians — are not big on universal prescriptions. And rightly so, I think, because individual situations are too varied and often too complex, for any universal answer to hold water. Besides, utilitarianism is a consequentialist type of philosophy, meaning that consequences are all that matter, and the simple reason it doesn’t work is that it’s impossible to calculate precisely enough and ahead of time the consequences of many actions. Not to mention that there is no logical stopping point: just how far into…