If a child's school or class closes, or the child is a “contact case,” parents must stop working in order to babysit the child. To do this, measures have been put in place to provide households with financial assistance because of the sick leave. Employees in the private sector have the right to partial employment, the self-employed to a derogatory work stoppage, and civil servants are placed under special authorization to ’
As part of the second wave of Covid-19, the child's class, or even school, may be closed due to the number of cases. The small one can then be a “case-contact”. In the event that this should happen, it is important to know what to do and how to act. If a child is underage or unable to stay at home alone, the public service site assures that one of the parents must stop working to look after the child.
Obviously, if the baby shows symptoms of the virus and has been in direct contact with an infected person, it is advisable to be tested and to be confined for 7 days. This for both parents.
For private sector employees
Private law employees have the right to partial activity. For this reason, the following conditions – given by the site of the public services of the Republic – must be met:
- Both parents must be unable to work.
- The employer must receive a document attesting to the closure of the class, made by the establishment, or of the child's case-contact situation. This is a document from Health Insurance. It is also imperative to provide a sworn certificate that he is the only one of the two parents asking to benefit from a work stoppage for the days concerned.
It is specified that only one of the two parents of a household can benefit from the partial activity, from "from the first day of stoppage of work and at the latest until the end of the period of isolation”.
For the self-employed, liberal professions or health and contractual public law
These people have the right to a derogatory work stoppage. The latter consists of daily sickness benefits.
Self-employed workers, self-employed agricultural workers, artist authors, vocational training trainees, liberal professions, health professions, salaried managers, public administration contract workers, non-time civil servants complete working less than 28 hours and childminders or childcare at home can benefit from this assistance.
In order to benefit from it:
- Both parents must be unable to work.
- The child must be under 16 on the day of the start of the stop. There is no age limit for a child with a disability.
- You must keep proof of the closure of the class or the situation of " case-contact »Of the child who must be communicated to the Health Insurance in the event of an inspection.
The device applies “from the first day of stoppage of work and at the latest until the end of the period of isolation. The shutdown can be declared for a period corresponding to the closure of the establishment without being able to exceed 21 days”.
The procedure
“The sick leave is established by the Health Insurance after declaration online via the teleservice set up by the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) or the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) by the beneficiary himself”. The only ones exceptions are the trainees in vocational training who are declared by their training organization and the agents of public law who are declared by their employer.
To benefit from this work stoppage, the conditions are indicated above.
We recall that the “entitlement conditions and the waiting period are not applicable and the daily allowances are not taken in the counters for the maximum duration of daily allowance ”. Still happy !
And the officials in all this?
When teleworking is not possible, officials are placed on special leave of absence (ASA) and are compensated at 100%.
To benefit from it, parents must provide:
- A documentary evidence from the establishment attesting that the child cannot be accommodated or a document from the Health Insurance certifying that their child is considered as a risky contact case
- A certificate on the honor that he is the only one of the two parents asking to benefit from an ASA for the days concerned.
That’s a lot of information all at once, but it’s important for us to properly inform our readers about the situation. Take care of yourself !