You are certainly asking yourself a lot of questions right now. If I have to keep my children at home and online work is not possible for me. What mechanisms have the government put in place for all these situations?
You cannot telecommute and take care of a child under 16.
The government has set up an exceptional mechanism with sickness insurance based on work stoppages. Your children are necessarily affected by the current containment measures.
You are entitled to this atypical sick leave and to the daily allowances which accompany it.
If your child is under 16:
- That it is impossible for you to work remotely is that you are therefore obliged to stop all activity to babysit your children.
- Your child is under 16 years of age on the day when the stop is prescribed.
If your child is 16 years of age or older, you will not be entitled to any compensation. With the exception of children under 18, disabled, schooled in specialized establishments in normal times.
How long is this work stoppage?
The sick leave that will be issued to you may extend up to 14 calendar days. That is to say that you will have to count 14 days including weekends from the prescription of the sick leave. A new declaration will have to be made every 14 days until the end of the confinement period. Only one of the two parents can benefit from this device. It is nevertheless possible to share it between the father and the mother and also incidentally to split it up.
What are the steps to take?
As an employee, you have no steps to take other than that of notifying your employer. Your employer will send all the necessary information to your CPAM. In fact it is a question of indicating that being unable to telework, you are maintained at home. Employees of the general scheme are included in this mechanism. This system does not apply to public officials and persons dependent on other special schemes. Self-employed people take care of making the declaration to health insurance.
When will you collect your allowances?
From the moment your employer performs the procedure on the site provided for this purpose. You will be entitled to daily allowances, subject to checks by health insurance. Indeed, your salary elements must be transmitted according to the usual procedure. The time that this information is collected and processed may be longer or shorter depending on the situation in your region. An interesting point to remember, you will be paid for all your days off. Without days of deficiencies and without checks concerning the opening of your rights.
Example mail Attestation of childcare at home.
Here's a very official example, simple, certificate to send to your employer by post or email. You can, if you wish, send it with acknowledgments using the online services from the post office.
Hello,
Wishing, I hope for a very quick return to my post, I am enclosing, as agreed, my childcare certificate.
See you soon
Firstname name
Attestation of childcare at home
I, the undersigned "First name Last name of the employee", certify that my child "First name Last name of the child", aged "age of the child" years is enrolled in the establishment "Name of the establishment" of the commune "Name of the commune", closed for the period from "date" to "date" as part of the management of the coronavirus epidemic.
I certify that I am the only parent to request a work stoppage so that I can keep my child at home.
Done at "place" on "date"
"First name Last name of employee"
"Signature"
