Subject: Support interventions for workers with minor children in distance education, infected with Covid-10 or in quarantine
We hereby report the measures provided by Decree-Law No. 30 of March 13, 2021 in favor of working parents in cases of suspension of educational activity in the presence of the cohabiting child, to the duration of the child's SARS Covid-19 infection, as well as to the duration of the child's quarantine ordered by the Prevention Department of the territorially competent ATS following contact wherever it occurred.
The provisions therein are effective from January 1 until June 30, 2021.
Parental leave and baby-sitting bonus (Art. 2)
In the only cases in which the work performance cannot be carried out in agile mode, the employed parent of a cohabiting child under the age of fourteen, alternating with the other parent, may abstain from work for a period corresponding in whole or in part to the duration of the suspension of educational activity in the presence of the child, the duration of infection from Covid-19, as well as in the case of quarantine of the child ordered by ATS, for contact wherever it occurred.
The benefit is also granted to parents of children with disabilities ascertained in accordance with Law 104, Art. 4, Paragraph 1, enrolled in schools of all levels, for which the suspension of in-person teaching activities has been ordered, or housed in day care centers for which the closure has been ordered.
Any periods of parental leave taken by parents as of January 1, 2021, and up to the effective date of the decree (i.e., March 13, 2021), requested for the above reasons, can be converted on demand into the leave in question with entitlement to the stipulated allowance (50 percent of salary) and are not counted or compensated as parental leave (i.e., they are compensated at 50 percent, not 30 percent).
In the case of children between the ages of 14 and 16, one of the two parents, alternating with the other, has the right to abstain from work without payment of pay or allowance or recognition of figurative contribution, with prohibition of dismissal and the right to job retention.