Núria Sánchez (not her real name) started working in a cafeteria in Barcelona's Eixample district four months before the pandemic broke out. She worked 40 hours a week but her contract was (and still is) only part-time; therefore, of the €1,000 she earned, half were "black money". "I needed to work after seven months on the dole, bills had to be paid at home and I took the job despite knowing that the company did not comply with the law," she explains.