My child has Covid, can I take time off work to keep them?

“How do I work if my child, who cannot look after himself for ten days, tests positive for Covid, while his parents do not have Covid and are vaccinated, therefore required to work, even in being case contact? asks Anne, from Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).

To answer you, Anne, employees whose children are positive for Covid-19 can request a work stoppage for childcare outside school holidays. We take stock of the conditions of these judgments.

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Contact case: isolation to be respected depending on the variant

Indeed, since July 27, 2021, vaccinated people are no longer required to be isolated if they are a contact case. Screening tests must be carried out, the first immediately after being informed of a contact at risk, the second one week after the last contact with the infected person.

However, remember that if Health Insurance has contacted you and informed that the positive person was likely to have the Omicron variant, an isolation of 7 days (or 17 days if you share the home of the infected person) is to be respected.

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Private sector employees, partial activity and work stoppage

Set up during the spring of 2020, and reactivated on September 2, 2021, a system of partial activity and work stoppage without a day off deficiency allows parents of children under 16 or with disabilities, without age limit, to keep their offspring infected with the coronavirus. A decree published in the Official Journal on October 29, 2021 extends the Covid-19 derogatory work stoppage system until December 31, 2021 inclusive.

Thus, for private sector employees with contact cases of the contaminated child, “one of the parents of a child declared positive for Covid-19 can benefit from a derogatory work stoppage compensated, without waiting period, with an employer supplement, whether vaccinated or not, when he cannot telework”, specifies the site service-public.fr. The parents concerned are contacted by Health Insurance as part of “contact tracing”.

The stoppage is for a period of seven days from the notification of the Health Insurance. It may be retroactive within the limit of 4 days for the parent who spontaneously isolated himself before the date of notification.

To benefit from it, you will need to present to your employer “proof of the closure of the school or class (established by the establishment or the town hall) or a document from the Health Insurance stating that his child is considered a contact case at risk and is subject to an isolation measure", as well as a sworn statement that you are the only one of the two parents requesting to benefit from the partial activity scheme for the days concerned.

For the self-employed, liberal professions…: a derogatory work stoppage

For the self-employed, liberal professions, and other contract workers under public law, a work stoppage without a waiting period can also be applied. To qualify, both parents must be unable to telework. As in the other cases, the child must be under the age of sixteen, or in a situation of disability, without age limit.

For civil servants, placement on special leave of absence (ASA)

When they cannot telework, civil servants working more than 28 hours a week are placed on special leave of absence ( ASA), and are compensated at 100% of their remuneration. Proof from the establishment certifying that the child cannot be accommodated or a document from Health Insurance certifying that their child has tested positive for Covid or considered to be a contact case at risk must be provided, as well as a certificate on the honor that he is the only one of the two parents requesting to benefit from an ASA for the days concerned.

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If you find yourself in a specific situation, not referenced in the list above, the Health Insurance has set up declare.ameli.fr, a website that provides information based on your profile. All you have to do is fill in your professional situation and your health situation to find out what you are entitled to.

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