The government introduced a new measure to help those parents whose children were sent home. A total of 32 schools and 524 individual classes have closed because of COVID-19 outbreaks. The government announced that parents affected by the closures would be granted access to “chomage partiel”, the economic aid scheme bolstered by the government at the beginning of the lockdown in March to help businesses foot their employees’ salaries to prevent mass layoffs. Parents who could not work from home would get access to the scheme with retroactive effect starting September 1st, the government said.
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