The news, now confirmed, should relieve thousands of employees who were tearing their hair out to know how to look after their children in the event of the closure of their nursery, school or college due to Covid-19.
As we revealed on Wednesday evening, the government announced that employees in the private sector could then - under certain conditions only - be placed in partial activity.
This device can only be activated if the parent (s) is / are unable to telework and if the municipality does not offer a childcare system.
The Ministry of Solidarity and Health specifies in a press release that parents will "be able to benefit from a replacement income from the first day of their stoppage of work, and at the latest until the end of the period of isolation" .
Please note, this compensation can only benefit “to one parent per household”, “upon justification” provided by the school and its amount will not be identical according to the status of the parent (s).
Private, self-employed or civil servants: three types of compensation
For employees in the private sector, partial unemployment will be remunerated at 84% of net salary until November 1, then at a declining rate.
Self-employed workers will benefit from self-employed daily allowances;
they will have to connect to the Health Insurance website, Ameli, to declare their situation and send the documents provided by the school.
They will thus be able to receive up to 90% of their net salary.
As for civil servants, the special leave of absence (ASA), to be presented to their management, will allow them to receive 100% of their salary.
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Precision of size: the device is retroactive and will therefore cover the period since the start of the school year, namely all justified stops since September 1.
"It is the school which will give parents an administrative document which will certify that the class or school is closed," government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Thursday.
It is this document that parents can give to their employer to claim partial unemployment.
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Mixed reaction from the CFDT boss
Asked on the airwaves of France Info this Thursday, Laurent Berger, number one of the CFDT, greeted "good news" but with "a downside".
"We must not consider that we can telework durably with children at home, especially young children, he stressed while Medef must return its copy on the organization of telework this Friday to unions.
"When you have a child who is 13 or 14 years old, you will be forced to be with him and telecommute, it works objectively, he said.
When you have children who are small and your activity can be
teleworked
, we get into something quite difficult.
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