At the start of the school year, if your child’s class closes because of Covid-19, what are the conditions to benefit from a work stoppage to look after your child? We take stock.
This Thursday, September 2 is the back to school 2021-2022. A moment expected for some but feared by others. Indeed, for more than 18 months, the health crisis continues to surprise the French. While the previous year (2020-2021), for most of the school year, teaching in attendance was possible thanks to the implementation of a strict protocol. For this new year things are changing. The government provides for 4 protocols that may change depending on the situation.
The start of the school year will start in yellow (level 2), in other words, face-to-face reception, compulsory mask and closure of a class as soon as the first case of coronavirus appears in schools.
The government has, however, announced that in middle and high school, if a case is declared in a classroom, students who have been vaccinated and tested negative will be able to continue attending their classes while their unvaccinated classmates will have to stay home for 7 days. days.
Under these conditions, it is sometimes essential to keep your child at home. But be careful, the work stoppage to keep your child sick, or case-contact, is not automatic.
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For private sector employees
Are you an employee under private law and you are forced to look after your child aged under 16 or with a disability and you cannot telecommute? No worries, you will then be able to benefit from the implementation of partial unemployment.
However, this authorization takes into account certain conditions:
- Only if no parent can telecommute
- Only one parent can benefit from it
- You will need to present proof of the closure of the class, established either by the school or by the town hall, or proof that indicates that your child is case-contact (Health insurance).
- You will also need to provide a sworn statement indicating that you are the only one of the two parents requesting a work stoppage.
With partial unemployment, you will be compensated up to 70% of your gross salary, which can be supplemented by your employer to reach 100%.
For civil servants
If you are a civil servant (excluding public law contractors and non-full-time civil servants working less than 28 hours), forced to look after your child under 16 or disabled, and you do not cannot telework, a special absence authorization (ASA) may be set up. In this case, you will be compensated at 100%.
The procedure is the same as for employees in the private sector.
You will then have to present proof of the closing of the class, established either by the school or by the town hall, or proof that indicates that your child is case-contact (Health insurance).
You will also need to present a sworn statement indicating that you are the only one of the two parents applying for ASA.
For the self-employed
If you are self-employed, i.e. belonging to one of the following categories:
- self-employed agricultural workers,
- artists, authors and trainees in professional training,
- liberal professions, health professions, salaried managers
- civil servants under public law in the administration, non-full-time civil servants working less than 28 hours
- childminders or child minders at home.
You can benefit from a compensated derogatory work stoppage without waiting periods. You will be granted sick leave provided that both parents are unable to telework, and in this case, only one parent will be able to benefit from it.
To do this, you must make a request to the Health Insurance on Declare.ameli.fr Where declare.msa.fr.
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