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Page 24 <br /> <br /> Seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or participating in <br />any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or resulting from domestic abuse, <br />sexual assault, or stalking <br />• Care of a family member: <br />o With mental or physical illness, injury or other health condition <br />o Who needs medical diagnosis, care or treatment of a mental or physical illness, <br />injury or other health condition <br />o Who needs preventative medical or health care <br />o Whose school or place of care has been closed due to weather or other public <br />emergency <br />o When it has been determined by health authority or a health care professional that <br />the presence of the family member of the employee in the community would <br />jeopardize the health of others because of the exposure of the family member of the <br />employee to a communicable disease, whether or not the family member has <br />actually contracted the communicable disease. <br />• Absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee’s family <br />member provided the absence is to: <br />o Seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or disability caused <br />by domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking <br />o Obtain services from a victim services organization <br />o Obtain psychological or other counseling <br />o Seek relocation or take steps to secure an existing home due to domestic abuse, <br />sexual assault or stalking <br />o Seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or participating in any <br />civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or resulting from domestic abuse, sexual <br />assault, or stalking. <br /> <br />D. For Sick Leave/Earned Sick and Safe Time purposes, family member includes an <br />employee’s: <br />• Spouse or registered domestic partner <br />• Child, foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian, <br />or child to whom the employee stands or stood in local parentis <br />• Sibling, step sibling or foster sibling <br />• Biological, adoptive or foster parent, stepparent or a person who stood in loco parentis <br />when the employee was a minor child <br />• Grandchild, foster grandchild or step grandchild <br />• Grandparent or step grandparent <br />• A child of a sibling of the employee <br />• A sibling of the parent of the employee or <br />• A child-in-law or sibling-in-law <br />• Any of the above family members of a spouse or registered domestic partner <br />• Any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is <br />the equivalent of a family relationship <br />• Up to one individual annually designated by the employee <br />Page 85 of 166