Support measures for workers with minor children during distance learning
- March 23, 2021
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Subject: Support measures for workers with minor children in distance learning, with COVID-19 infection, or in quarantine
This document outlines the measures provided for by Legislative Decree no. 30 of March 13, 2021, for working parents in cases of suspension of in-person learning activities with their cohabiting child, the duration of their child's SARS-CoV-19 infection, and the duration of their child's quarantine ordered by the Prevention Department of the local health authority (ATS) following contact wherever it occurred.
The provisions contained therein are effective from January 1st to June 30th 2021.
Parental leave and babysitting bonus (Art. 2)
Only in cases where work cannot be performed remotely, the employed parent of a cohabiting child under the age of fourteen, alternately with the other parent, may refrain from work for a period corresponding in whole or in part to the duration of the suspension of the child's in-person learning activities, the duration of the child's COVID-19 infection, or in the event of the child's quarantine ordered by the Local Health Authority (ATS), due to contact wherever it occurred.
The benefit is also available to parents of children with certified disabilities pursuant to Law 104, Article 4, paragraph 1, enrolled in schools of all levels for which in-person learning has been suspended, or who are housed 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 reasons set out above, may be converted upon request into the leave in question with the right to the foreseen allowance (50% of the 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 between the ages of 14 and 16, one parent, alternately, has the right to abstain from work without payment of wages or benefits or recognition of notional contributions, with a ban on dismissal and the right to retain their job.
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