Factsheet for measure
LT-2020-9/299
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Updated
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Compensation for employees looking after children or disabled persons while in quarantine
Kompensacijos darbuotojams, prižiūrintiems vaikus ar neįgalius asmenis karantino metu
Background information
Educational establishments have been temporarily closed in the country since 16 March 2020 as a result of the introduction of quarantine in Lithuania (Resolution No. 207 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 14 March 2020). In this connection, given the emergence of the need to care for a child in pre-school, pre-primary or primary education, as well as for a disabled person under 21 in general or special education, one of the parents is issued an electronic sick-leave certificate if the parents are not able to work remotely or their employer has not established idle time.
Content of measure
When a restrictive regime is announced in an educational establishment and one of the parents cannot work remotely, the National Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) pays 65.94% of the recipient’s compensated wage from the first day the recipient is unable to work. Persons eligible for the benefit are parents, foster-parents, grandparents, caretakers and custodians who are entitled to the benefit, and are looking after child/children up to primary school age or child/children with disability under the age of 21. The benefit can be paid for up to 60 days. Payment of the benefit shall cease upon termination of the quarantine regime. Furthermore, following the declaration of the emergency situation and the suspension of the activities of day care centres for the disabled, sickness benefit is paid to those employees who have to care for a disabled person who has been previously attending a day care centre.
Updates
The following updates to this measure have been made after it came into effect.
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01 May 2022
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The measure ended on 1 May 2022 as the emergency situation was lifted on that date.
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14 September 2020
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Order No V-2032/A1-833 of the Minister for Health of the Republic of Lithuania and the Minister for Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania of 11 September 2020 stipulates that during the emergency situation and/or quarantine sickness benefit shall be paid for children under eight, schoolers in first to fourth grades and children with disabilities under 21 studying under general or special education programmes when they are not sick but put to mandatory isolation by the National Public Health Centre (NPHC). A child may be put to mandatory isolation in two cases - when the child visited the country affected by the coronavirus without his/her parents or guardians or when he/she had direct contact with a sick person. The provisions will not apply to children and disabled persons under the age of 21 who left Lithuania and visited a foreign country (-ies) that on the day of their departure from the Republic of Lithuania were included in the list of countries affected by COVID-19 (coronavirus infection) approved by the Minister of Health. This amendment entered into force on 14 September 2020. The new compensation procedure will be valid in Lithuania as long as the emergency situation and/or quarantine are in place.
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Use of measure
According to Sodra's data, about 50,000 have been benefitted by this measure in Lithuania during quarantine.
Target groups
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Workers
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Businesses
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Citizens
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Parents in employment
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Does not apply to businesses
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Does not apply to citizens
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Actors and funding
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Actors
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Funding
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National government
Social partners jointly
Social insurance
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National funds
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Social partners
Social partners' role in
designing the measure
and form of involvement:
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Trade unions
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Employers' organisations
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Role
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Consulted
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Consulted
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Form
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Direct consultation outside a formal body
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Direct consultation outside a formal body
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Social partners' role in the
implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
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Unknown
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Main level of involvement: Unknown
Involvement
No information available.
Views and reactions
Social partners consulted only ad hoc, the tripartite meeting was not held.
Sources
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27 February 2020: Laikinosios tvarkos aprašas V-238/A1-17 (2020-02-27)
(e-seimas.lrs.lt)
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14 March 2020: LR Nutarimas Dėl karantino Lietuvos Respublikos teritorijoje paskelbimo (2020-03-14)
(e-seimas.lrs.lt)
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18 March 2020: Law No XIII-2824 adding Article 11-1 to Law No IX-110 on Sickness and Maternity Social Insurance of the Republic of Lithuani
(www.e-tar.lt)
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11 September 2020: Order No V-2032/A1-833 of the Minister for Health of the Republic of Lithuania and the Minister for Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublikos sveikatos apsaugos ministro ir Lietuvos Respublikos socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministro įsakymas Nr. V-2032 / A1-833)
(www.e-tar.lt)
