In the event of a sick child between the age of 14 and 18, parents will be able to take advantage of the right to dismissal from work for a period of up to 30 days, and not 14 days, during which care allowance will be paid. Such a change is included in the draft amendment to the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation.
Combining paid work with caring for disabled children is often difficult and is associated with the increased effort of the child’s caregivers. To help families raising disabled children, the government plans to extend the period of receiving care allowance for them in a calendar year.
Currently, care for a sick child over 14 years of age, for which he is entitled to a care allowance, may be provided for a maximum of 14 days in a calendar year.
The proposed regulations introduce changes that are intended to facilitate the parents of a child with a disability certificate. It is about extending the right to dismissal from work for a sick, disabled child from 14 to 30 days. Working parents will be entitled to care allowance for a child with a certificate of disability until they turn 18.
Such a solution was included in the bill amending the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Disabled Persons and certain other acts, on which work will be conducted in the Sejm.
Parents of a child with a certificate of severe and irreversible handicap or life-threatening incurable disease, which arose during the prenatal period of the child’s development or during childbirth, as well as a disabled child or child with special educational needs, were also granted the right to work in the form of telework. The employer will be able to refuse them only when the nature of the work does not allow it to be performed remotely – I read on rp.pl