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For healthcare workers, this benefit was granted in line with the organisational needs of the national health service companies and organisations involved in the COVID-19 emergency and of the health sector. These additional twelve days of leave, available in March and April 2020, were added to the three days of monthly leave already provided for by law, for a total of eighteen days for the two months mentioned. 104 strengthened: The Cure Italy Decree provided for an additional twelve days of the paid leave granted by current legislation to assist disabled family members and covered by social security contributions (so-called "paid leave pursuant to Italian Law 104/92”). Paid leave pursuant to Italian law no.A "Fund for the COVID-19 epidemiological emergency” has also been established, setting aside € 400 million in 2020 and € 600 million in 2021 for the implementation of measures to contain the epidemiological risk. The Cure Italy Decree set aside an extra € 85 million for the ‘Fund for digital innovation and teaching workshops’, dedicating resources to the purchase of digital platforms and tools for state schools (€ 10 million), to loaning personal digital devices to less well-off students (€ 70 million) and to staff training.

Support for schools: the August Decree set aside € 1 billion for the upcoming two-year period, in order to increase the resources available to the fund dedicated to school building requirements and adapting educational activities for the 2020-2021 academic year, in order to make them safe and to hire new teachers (these resources had already been strengthened by the Relaunch Decree).

All public-sector employers can opt for smart working for all their employees until the end of the state of emergency and, in any case, up until 31 December 2020.

Smart working: until the end of the COVID-19 emergency, parents employed in the private sector with at least one child under the age of 14 have the right to work from home, even without an individual agreement to do so, provided that there is no other parent in the household benefiting from income support schemes should their work have been suspended or terminated, and as long as the other parent is working.

Setting aside a total of € 660 million, the Relaunch Decree extended the duration of this leave from fifteen days to a total of thirty days, to be taken on a continuous basis or divided up, while the period to make use of this leave was also extended from 3 May until 31 July 2020. Parental leave: for parents who are private-sector employees, the Cure Italy Decree introduced the right to specific parental leave for children under the age of 12, granting an allowance equal to 50 per cent of their salary.For health sector employees, this bonus was increased from € 1,000 to € 2,000 (as it can be used over 2 months), with approximately € 680 million being set aside. The Relaunch Decree increased this voucher from € 600 to € 1,200 (as it can be used over 2 months), also making it available for enrolment in summer camps this initiative was strengthened after the ‘Family policies fund’ was refinanced by € 150 million. Bonus for babysitting services: the Cure Italy Decree introduced a voucher to purchase babysitting services, for up to a maximum of € 600, to be used for services provided in 2020, starting from 5 March.

Please find below the main measures introduced to support families. The Relaunch Decree also definitively cancelled the so-called 'safeguard clauses’, eliminating the increases in VAT and excise duties that had been planned from 2021, thereby benefiting the country's economy and families.

#Italy lockdown end date series

To deal with the Covid-19 emergency, the Italian Government has introduced a series of measures to support Italian families, starting from the ‘Cure Italy Decree’ these measures were then subsequently strengthened and extended by the 'Relaunch Decree’ and the ‘August Decree’: measures to support working parents, measures to ensure the necessary levels of liquidity by guaranteeing income and the suspension of tax and social security contributions, indemnities and new schemes such as ‘Emergency Income’ for the families most in difficulty and significant allocations to extend social protection schemes.