Support measures for workers with minor children participating in distance learning
- March 23, 2021
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Subject: Support measures for workers with minor children participating in distance learning, who have contracted COVID-19, or who are in quarantine
This document outlines 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 competent local health authority 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, an employed parent of 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 in-person schooling for the child, the duration of a COVID-19 infection, as well as in the event of the child’s quarantine ordered by the ATS, regardless of where the exposure occurred.
This benefit is also available to parents of children with disabilities certified under Article 4, paragraph 1, of Law 104, who are enrolled in schools at all levels where in-person instruction has been suspended, or who attend 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 provided allowance (50% of pay) and are not counted or compensated as parental leave (i.e., they are compensated at 50% rather than 30%).
In the case of children aged 14 to 16, one of the parents, in turn, is entitled to take unpaid leave from work without receiving wages, compensation, or credit for social security contributions, and is protected from dismissal and entitled to retain their job.
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