COVID-19 Parental leave (Conge parental corona) was provided to allow people to take time off from work to care of their children due to the school closure. This did not affect the right to regular parental leave
Country
BelgiumPolicy Area
Parental leaveMeasure
Paid parental leaveEligibility
Employed individuals who worked at least 75% of full time for at least 1 month in the private sector or 1 day in the public sector for the same employer, had children aged 12 and under (or disabled children aged 21 and under), and requested leave from their employers with at least 3 days of notice
Self-employed individuals who did not receive a bridge benefit (i.e. a monthly financial benefit for the self-employed) and had children aged 12 and under (or disabled children aged 21 and under)Type
Cash (social insurance)Start / Announced Date
For employed individuals: 01/05/2020
For self-employed individuals: 16/05/2020End Date
For employed individuals: 30/09/2020
For self-employed individuals: 31/06/2021Amount
For single-parent employees who took complete leave: €2,100.01 per month
For single-parent employees who took partial leave: €638.68 per month
For employees who took complete leave: €1,277.36 per month
For employees who took partial leave: €532.24 per month
For self-employed individuals: €532.24 per month
For single-parent self-employoed individuals: €875.00 per month
For self-employed individuals with disabled children: €638.69 per monthTotal Cost
N/ARecipients
ParentsRoute to the child
IndirectSources
Eurofound (2020) COVID-19 parental leave, case BE-2020-18/860 (measures in Belgium), COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch, Dublin. Available at: http://eurofound.link/covid19eupolicywatch
Mortelmans, D., Fusulier, B. (2020) ‘Belgium country note’, Koslowski, A., Blum, S., Dobrotić, I., Kaufman, G. and Moss, P. (eds.) International Review of Leave Policies and Research 2020. Available at: http://www.leavenetwork.org/lp_and_r_reports/Access the full dataset here
