The new lockdown rules now bring a little relief for parents of daycare and school children: Instead of special corona leave, they receive more childhood sick days.
According to the federal-state resolution of January 5, the lockdown rules in force in the federal states
will be extended until January 31, 2021.
Schools and daycare centers should also remain closed in most federal states.
Parents receive
twice as many childhood illness days *
to look after their children
.
Federal-state resolution of January 5th: More days of childhood illness for parents
Update from January 7, 2021:
The federal-state resolution of January 5, 2021 now brings the longed-for relief for parents of daycare and school children.
However, not in the form of a paid Corona special leave (see message from December 14th).
Instead, parents should now
receive twice as many childhood illness days as usual,
reports the German Press Agency (dpa).
Each parent
can take
20 days
(instead of 10) sick leave for the child
this year
.
Single parents
receive
40
days instead of the usual 20 days for childhood illnesses.
The
regulation also applies expressly
if children have to be
cared for at home
due to closed schools or restricted operations in the corona pandemic
.
The number of childhood illness days had already increased last year.
How much is the child sickness benefit?
Anyone who takes
child sick
days will receive child sickness benefit for this period
.
This is paid by the statutory health insurance and amounts to a maximum of
90 percent of the net salary.
In order to receive it, parents must submit the sick note to their health insurance company.
Unfortunately, those who are privately insured are not entitled to child sickness benefit.
In this case, however, there is appropriate supplementary insurance.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states agreed on Tuesday
to extend the
lockdown rules that have been in force in the federal states since mid-December
until January 31.
According to the dpa report, there will be another discussion on January 25, how things will continue from February.
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But no special corona leave for parents
Update from December 23, 2020:
That's probably it with the
Corona special leave for parents
: As the social policy spokesman for the CSU in the Bundestag, Stephan Stracke, announced, the corresponding proposal by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) was rejected, shares the German press Agency (dpa) with.
The reason: The “paid vacation” in lockdown
would have had to be financed by the employers alone
, even though the care problems were caused by government action, the report says.
For parents who may now have to look after their children in the home office * for weeks, this is a bitter disappointment.
After all, experts expect the lockdown to last well after January 10th.
"We would have liked to give parents a real right to special leave, with full wage compensation from the employer," said Carsten Schneider from the SPD parliamentary group to the editorial network Germany (RND).
However, the Chancellor's proposal had been rejected
by the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
.
Compensation for loss of earnings: regulations are being expanded
For parents of school children at least a little relief was decided: the
compensation rules for parents
to be given the new corona lockdown
extended
.
The
dpa reports that
there will now also be
compensation for loss of
earnings from the state if schools are not only closed, but also if only the
mandatory presence for the facilities is suspended
.
The new rules on compensation also
apply to alternating lessons
, on days when the students are at home and during
extended school or company holidays
, for example in daycare centers, if these are officially ordered.
However, many parents are still left out in the rain.
"A supplement for parents who do not give their child to the daycare center due to official appeals, although they could do so, would be urgently necessary," criticized the family policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Grigorios Aggelidis, of the decision to the RND.
Hard lockdown: is there a corona vacation for parents now?
Article of December 14, 2020:
From Wednesday, December 16, Germany will be back in "hard lockdown".
The federal and state governments agreed on massive restrictions on public life on Sunday after the infection situation with Covid-19 * had worsened dramatically in almost all of Germany.
That also means that
daycare centers and schools are closing
, in many federal states even from this Monday.
Although there should be some emergency care, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder appealed to the parents concerned to only take advantage of the offer “if it cannot be organized otherwise”.
For many, this means: working from home with children or taking a vacation.
But at the end of the year the vacation days are mostly used up.
So what to do
Also read:
Corona: What happens to my vacation days if I have to be quarantined while on vacation?
Federal-state decision on lockdown: "Additional opportunities for paid vacation"
In contrast to the first lockdown in spring, the federal-state resolution this time provides for relief for families: "For parents,
additional opportunities are being created
to take
paid leave
to look
after their children during the period mentioned
." Does that mean that parents will soon receive coronavirus Vacation - in addition to annual vacation?
Or is politics just appealing to employers to accommodate their employees?
Also read:
Coronavirus: School / Kindergarten closed - Working parents can now do that.
Corona vacation for parents?
The federal government is planning this
A report by the German Press Agency at least nourishes the hope of many parents who have been battered by the crisis year.
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) is already working on regulations for additional leave for the parents concerned.
Details would be discussed by Monday,
the report says.
As much as affected parents would be happy about a few days extra vacation - the prospect of Corona vacation poses additional problems for its employees for retailers.
There would simply be a lack of staff in supermarkets and the like.
The managing director of the German Retail Association (HDE), Stefan Genth, therefore warned in an interview with Die
Welt
: “We need emergency care for the children of the employees in the supermarkets, which are part of the critical infrastructure for supplying the population. "
Parents are entitled to compensation for loss of earnings
But no matter how the regulations for the Corona vacation turn out: Those who cannot work due to daycare and school closings are entitled to compensation in the event of loss of earnings.
The Infection Protection Act provides for this.
This regulation had already been made in the first lockdown in spring.
(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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