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Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - According to the Saarland Education Minister Christine Streichert-Clivot (SPD), the child health regulation brought in by the federal government is "a great relief for working parents in lockdown".
"As soon as the law is passed in the Bundestag, we will implement it in the state unbureaucratically," said the minister in Saarbrücken on Wednesday.
The amendment to the law still has to be passed by the Bundestag, but should then apply retrospectively to January 5th.
Saarland's Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) welcomed the fact that the federal government was swiftly implementing the temporary extension of the entitlement to children's sickness benefit and that a corresponding draft law was being introduced into parliament.
"It is important that parents can now also apply for child sickness benefit without much effort," he said.
Working families would again face particular challenges in this phase of the pandemic.
"Many parents now carry even more burdens because they look after their children at home," said Hans.
That is why it is very important to support them in this.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the Prime Ministers of the federal states agreed a week ago to double the number of childhood sick days per parent from 10 to 20 this year, and from 20 to 40 for single parents a sick child under the age of 12 cannot go to work.
It amounts to 90 percent of net earnings.