As soon as the pandemic began, a measure was adopted that, he said, would make workers “more flexible”. In this way, reductions in unpaid working hours were allowed, which made dismissal difficult.

From the point of view of the Spanish Government, however, parents of children in quarantine with negative PCR test do not need that flexibility. The spokesman for the Government of Spain, Maria Jesús Montero, said: "It is clear that the fathers and mothers of the children who tested positive are close and direct people, so they may be paid off, not so the fathers and mothers of the children who tested negative for PCR."

The minister stressed that all those living with positive people will have to be quarantined by accident and, in that case, they will have paid sick leave "so that there is no more contagion in the area". But there have been doubts about what parents who have the child in quarantine at home are going to do in order to be able to take care of their children. The Spanish Government has not clarified any.

The French State case

The French Government, for its part, expects parents to be allowed to leave if they have to close the school where their children go for a coronavirus case. Macron Government spokesman Gabriel Attal earlier this Tuesday that the decision to close a centre will be taken between the centre itself and the local authorities. According to Attal, "in the case of a case in a school, all possibilities have been analyzed with the necessary measures and reactions".

When a positive appears, they will isolate the student and invite to "isolate" those who have been in contact with him. The tests will be carried out "in case of suspicion" and the results will be made known as soon as possible.