How to work when you have to look after your children whose school is closed?
Thorny question to which Matignon should answer tomorrow by announcing
"a partial activity device"
intended for parents whose children cannot go to class because it has been closed because of Covid-19, according to information from the
Parisian
who quotes a government source.
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To benefit from this partial activity,
"the school must be administratively closed"
, adds this source, specifying that parents will be concerned
"if no childcare solution is offered by the municipality and if neither of the two parents is 'has the possibility of teleworking. "
The daily also specifies that the National Education will be responsible for finding a replacement if a teacher is a "contact case", rather than sending the students home.
A device under study since early September
Currently, parents faced with this situation must ask for paid vacation or RTT when they cannot telecommute.
But from the beginning of September, the government had ensured that it was working on a new support system, as government spokesman Gabriel Attal had declared on France Info: “
If ever a heavy decision to close a class or to close a school is taken, obviously that solutions will be offered to parents
”.
The Ministry of Labor had, moreover, confirmed to
Figaro
that
"a support system"
for these parents
"will be well implemented"
,
"under the same conditions as at the time of deconfinement"
.
During confinement, parents having to take care of their children under 16 due to the closure of the school were granted a work stoppage compensated up to 90% of the gross salary.
A rate that had fallen to 70% from May 1, when the device had switched to the partial unemployment mechanism.
