From next year, fathers and mothers will only be able to stay at home for 15 days a year to care for their sick child. For single parents, it will be 30 days. This has been decided by the Bundestag and Bundesrat. During the coronavirus pandemic, the number of sick days for children was increased to 30 days (60 days for single parents). However, there will be no change to the entitlement to child sick pay for those with statutory health insurance: parents who care for sick children under the age of 12 will receive 90 per cent of their net salary (tuenews reported: tun23091902) from their health insurance. Before the pandemic, each parent was only entitled to 10 child sick days. This means that parents are at least better off with the new regulation than in the times before Corona. Children’s sick pay is available for a maximum of 35 days—ten more than before, according to the AOK-Bundesverband.
To apply for child sick days and child sick pay, parents must have a so-called child sickness certificate issued by their doctor, which they then submit to the health insurance company. Parents can use these days flexibly and the entitlement also applies if they could work from home. Employers are also not allowed to demand that parents reduce overtime first. Anyone who works in a mini-job is entitled to children’s sick days, but usually receives no money. However, it may be worth asking the employer whether the company has a special arrangement for parents with sick children. Parents who receive parental allowance and work part-time can also take children’s sick days without reducing their parental allowance. There are special rules if the mother or father accompanies a sick child to hospital for the duration of treatment. The contact person in this case is the health insurance company.
https://www.aok.de/pp/plus/pm/schnelle-hilfe-bei-krankem-kind/
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Symbol für die Ärzteschaft: das Stethoskop. Foto: tünews INTERNATIONAL / Martin Klaus.
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