His son is absent because of the Covid, he is billed for the canteen

Do we have to pay for a meal not taken?

At the restaurant, no.

But how is it at school?

In Bollwiller, in the suburbs of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), a mother regrets having had to pay for the canteen when her child was in quarantine, because of the Covid contact, says

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The extracurricular replied that it was the regulation, signed by the parents.

On September 12, following a case of Covid-19 confirmed in the school, the child of this Alsatian was the subject of a quarantine measure.

For a week, he therefore attended neither his class nor the canteen.

The regulation to the letter

But in the invoice for the month of September, no reduction was applied.

Taken up by

, a letter from the director of the extracurricular school, addressed to parents explains that given the "number of children concerned (...) greater than ten", she could not cancel the meals and was "in the obligation to apply [the] operating regulations to the letter ”.

The latter stipulates that the canteen must be notified seven days in advance so as not to charge for meals.

The director of the MJC, where meals are served, justified himself on the fact that the parents had to pay: “The caterer who supplies us, too, presents us with the bill.

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Meals ordered but not consumed were thrown away, a concern for health regulations preventing food from being donated to an association, for example.

"It is not for the 20 euros that it bothers me, but for these discarded meals ...", confided, in anger, the student's mother.

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