The Government is willing to extend the discharge to all parents of children in quarantine

José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, has broken his silence about covering the parents of children who have to quarantine but have not tested positive.

"We are willing to introduce a regulatory change," he ended up granting when asked about it in the meeting after his meeting with the social agents, focused today on the extension of the ERTE beyond September 30.

The minister has finally endorsed a position that was only explicitly recognized by the Podemos wing within the coalition government;

This was claimed, first, by Vice President Pablo Iglesias, and later by the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, who this Friday shared a press conference with Escrivá.

The Minister of Finance and spokesperson, María Jesús Montero, recalled on Tuesday after the Council of Ministers meeting that coverage is currently only

, so that parents of children in quarantine they would have to settle for the support of the Me Take Care program.

Temporary disability due to close contact with a confined worker, which exists for example between co-workers, has been applied to parents with infected children, as Escrivá has stated.

"If a child is infected and has to go home, the father, by analogy with what happens with a co-worker, has to stay home, and the temporary disability is extended."

In the words of the minister, "the

is the case of a child who is in close contact with another child and then the parents have to take care of them at home. We have been analyzing the situation, which it requires a reinterpretation of the existing norm and we have finally concluded that

".

So far, Escrivá's descriptive answer, which nevertheless has been cross-examined in this regard, until he ends up leaning on the side that the Podemos sector supports within the Government: "We need to listen to the social agents and then yes,

"he said.

To develop this extension of coverage, Escrivá added that before enabling the "reinterpretation", they will have to "listen to the social agents" next week.

Thrust of the purple formation

The team in his field has the last word in this regard, has been working in recent days on this assumption, in coordination with other ministries such as Labor, but until now Social Security has not made explicit support for the regulatory change, as Iglesias had been advocating .

"What is being worked on is the extension of leave due to quarantine even in the case of a minor who is not infected, which is a temporary disability due to indirect quarantine,"

had

of Rights social.

Montero, for his part, on Wednesday said he had not yet listened to Iglesias, but warned that, in any case, these casualties would always be medical and therefore require a prescription.

The CSIF union requested the Government this Thursday "to clarify the contradictions."

The

of Labor, Chakir el Homrani, in turn demanded "a solution" and reported that in Catalonia there would be aid of up to 300 euros for vulnerable families who must comply with isolation and cannot access the mechanisms provided by the State.

In the absence of the regulatory change, parents of children in quarantine, but not positive, have at their disposal the Me Cuida plan, which allows the adaptation or reduction of the working day to attend, in this case, to a minor.

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