New Covid-19 protocol: childminders not paid and forgotten?

The day before, Linda, maternal assistant Rennes, who cares for four young children at home, learned that a parent of one of them tested positive for Covid. Gold, ” with the new protocol, the child under 3 years old can continue to come by doing a test on day zero, then another on D + 2 “, she sums up.

From 17 days of isolation to zero …

Most “We know that he can declare it at that time and have in the meantime contaminated the other children under three years old who do not wear a mask (and fortunately). It’s ridiculous: we have therefore gone from 17 days of isolation for a household in which a member has covid (which was perhaps too much) to zero days, if the parents are vaccinated. “

And this, while “If a case is declared in our house, I will not be able to babysit for 10 days. If it’s me, as was the case at the end of December, I have a work stoppage and therefore compensation. But if it is my husband or my daughter who is positive, then I am a contact case so supposed to continue working. I will not be entitled to sick leave so I do not know who will pay me my salary. “ And she is not the only one concerned. On a Facebook page of childminders of‘Ille-et-Vilaine, the question revolves around. And anger roars.

“We forget the childminders”

“What is happening is maddening”, still can’t believe Véronique Delaitre, national and Brittany representative of the FO union and herself in the profession, for whom “We simply forget the childminders. There are a multitude of them whose sick leaves are not validated (therefore not paid) by the Caisse Primaire d’Assurance Maladie (CPAM) because they are told that they must work in case of contact. Sometimes, we even tell them to go on short-time work when this does not exist in our profession. ” The problem according to her: a lack of information from the staff of the CPAM but also a “Hole in the racket” not to say a lack of consideration towards this profession.

Concern in case of child in case of contact

Another concern relayed by Linda, in the event of a child in custody in case of contact: “If we refuse it because one of his parents is positive for Covid, we are not paid. But I don’t want to take the risk that he will infect others if he is finally positive two days later. ” And this, at his expense. “Fortunately, I am not the only salary of the household, but I think of the childminders for whom it is the only income. “

“There is danger, at all levels: health as financial”, summarizes Véronique Delaitre. For who “Childminders are the big forgotten ones in the health crisis”. And who calls, with the inter-union, the profession to join the movement of teachers strike, Thursday January 13.

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