Support measures for workers with minor children in distance learning
- Studio Piceci
- March 23, 2021
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Subject: Support measures for workers with minor children in distance learning, infected with COVID-19, or in quarantine
This document sets out the measures provided for in Decree Law No. 30 of March 13, 2021, in favor of working parents in cases of suspension of in-person teaching activities for their cohabiting child, for the duration of the child's SARS Covid-19 infection, as well as for the duration of the child's quarantine ordered by the Prevention Department of the competent local health authority following contact anywhere.
The provisions contained therein shall be effective from January 1 to June 30, 2021.
Parental leave and babysitting allowance (Art. 2)
Only in cases where work cannot be performed remotely, the working parent of a child under the age of fourteen living with them, alternatively to the other parent, may take leave from work for a period corresponding in whole or in part to the duration of the suspension of in-person teaching for their child, the duration of their Covid-19 infection, or in the event of their child being quarantined by the ATS (Local Health Authority) due to contact with an infected person, wherever this may have occurred.
The benefit is also granted to parents of children with disabilities certified in accordance with Law 104, Article 4, paragraph 1, enrolled in schools of all levels, for which the suspension of in-person teaching has been ordered, or who are cared for in day care centers for which closure has been ordered.
Any periods of parental leave taken by parents from January 1, 2021, until the date of entry into force of the decree (i.e., March 13, 2021), requested for the above reasons, may be converted, upon request, into the leave in question with entitlement to the allowance provided for (50% of salary) and are not counted or compensated as parental leave (i.e., they are compensated at 50% and not 30%).
In the case of children aged between 14 and 16, one of the two parents, alternately with the other, has the right to abstain from work without payment of wages or allowances or recognition of notional contributions, with a prohibition on dismissal and the right to retain their job.