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A few days after the opening of the schools, the Government still does not articulate the coverage that parents who are forced to stop working to take care of their children will have in case they are placed in isolation.

This Thursday, after several days of contradictions between government partners about whether parents will have the right to sick leave only in case their child is positive or also when the minor is in quarantine due to the contagion of a partner, the Minister of Work, Yolanda Díaz, joined the thesis of Vice President Pablo Iglesias, in favor of extending coverage to all parents of children who are isolated.

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

Thus, these two members of the Government, both linked to Podemos, corrected the words of the Minister of Finance and Government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero, who on Tuesday said that the coverage was only "planned" for parents of minors positive in Covid -19 and that the rest would be supported by the program I take care.

On Wednesday, cross-examined after Iglesias described the approach as "unacceptable," Montero said that if Iglesias was "anticipating that the Ministry of Labor is already preparing drafts for these issues, then welcome."

Of course, the spokesperson pointed out that the casualties would always have a medical nature and would need a prescription.

The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, led by José Luis Escrivá, is the department that would have the last word in this regard, in coordination with Labor and following the guidelines of the Education or Health branches.

Already this Thursday the different voices of the Government seemed to lean towards the coverage of the losses of parents with non-positive quarantined children, as Diaz pointed out, but there is still no date to have the conclusion, they say from the Ministry of Escrivá.

The current process for obtaining discharge requires that, if a partner tests positive and is prescribed isolation, the doctor must be asked for a temporary disability.

Catalonia asks for explanations

CSIF has asked Sánchez "to clarify the Government's contradictions and guarantee coverage for the care of children in quarantine."

Also the Catalan Minister of Labor,

Chakir el Homrani

, demanded from the Government "a solution" and announced aid of up to 300 euros for vulnerable families who must fulfill isolation and cannot access the mechanisms deployed by the State.

For the moment, parents of children in quarantine, but not positive, have at their disposal the Me Cuida plan, which facilitates the adaptation or reduction of the working day of the worker who accredits Covid care.

This indeterminacy of criteria is reminiscent of the one that raised the minimum vital income (IMV), the Government's star project in social policy.

Moncloa estimated that it would reach 2.3 million people.

The Ministry of Inclusion reported two weeks ago that the right to benefit has been recognized for more than 80,000 households (more than 200,000 people), of more than 143,000 requests analyzed so far, although a total of 750,000 have reached the National Institute of the Social Security.

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