Support Measures for Workers with Minor Children Engaged in Distance Learning
- March 23, 2021
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Subject: Support Measures for Workers with Minor Children Engaged in Distance Learning, Who Have Contracted COVID-19, or Who Are in Quarantine
This document sets forth the measures provided for in Decree-Law No. 30 of March 13, 2021, to assist working parents in cases where in-person instruction for their child living in the same household is suspended, during the period of their child’s SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as during the period of their child’s quarantine ordered by the Prevention Department of the locally competent Local Health Authority (ATS) following exposure, regardless of where it occurred.
The provisions contained therein are effective from January 1 through June 30, 2021.
Parental Leave and Babysitting Allowance (Art. 2)
Only in cases where work cannot be performed remotely, a parent who is an employee and has a child under the age of fourteen living in the same household may, alternately with the other parent, take leave from work for a period corresponding in whole or in part to the duration of the suspension of their child’s in-person schooling, the duration of a COVID-19 infection, or in the event of their child’s quarantine ordered by the ATS, regardless of where the exposure occurred.
This benefit is also granted to parents of children with disabilities certified under Article 4, paragraph 1, of Law 104, who are enrolled in schools of all levels and types where in-person instruction has been suspended, or who are enrolled in day care centers that have been ordered to close.
Any periods of parental leave taken by parents from January 1, 2021, through the date the decree took effect (i.e., March 13, 2021), requested for the reasons stated above, may be converted, upon request, into the leave in question, with entitlement to the benefit provided for (50% of pay) and are neither counted toward nor compensated as parental leave (that is, they are compensated at 50% rather than 30%).
In the case of children between the ages of 14 and 16, either parent, alternately with the other, is entitled to take leave from work without pay or benefits and without recognition of imputed contributions, with protection against dismissal and the right to retain their job.
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