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The federal government allegedly does not plan to extend continued payment of wages to parents who are unable to go to work because of childcare in the crown crisis. This is reported by the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. The document quotes a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Labor. This had signaled that kindergartens and schools were reopening. Therefore, “there will be no extension of regulation as of today.”
Parents can receive up to 67 percent of their state wages if they have to care for children under the age of 12 during the pandemic due to closed daycares and schools in the home, and therefore lose income. The benefit is limited to 2016 euros for a full month and so far has been paid for a maximum of six weeks. Times when the daycare or school would be closed for vacation anyway are not counted.
The leader of the faction on the left, Dietmar Bartsch, called it a “scandal of how the federal government deals with parents who have to go without child care.” Children, women, and especially single parents, would lose the crown crisis, Bartsch told the newspaper. He called on Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) to “extend the six-week period without bureaucracy until there are regular operations in primary schools and kindergartens.” Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) also initially announced a “follow-up regulation”. The CDU had also called for an extension of continued wages for parents.
Anja Piel, a DGB board member, also called for improvements. In view of the emergency operation in day care centers and the limited number of schools, many families are “further aggravated by livelihoods and inattention.”
