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EARNED SICK AND SAFE TIME (ESST) #230 • Care of a family member: o With mental or physical illness, injury or other health condition o Who needs medical diagnosis, care or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury or other health condition o Who needs preventative medical or health care o Whose school or place of care has been closed due to weather or other public emergency o When it has been determined by health authority or a health care professional that the presence of the family member of the employee in the community would jeopardize the health of others because of the exposure of the family member of the employee to a communicable disease, whether or not the family member has actually contracted the communicable disease o Absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee’s family member provided the absence is to: - Seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or disability caused by domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking - Obtain services from a victim services organization - Obtain psychological or other counseling - Seek relocation or take steps to secure an existing home due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking - Seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or resulting from domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking For Earned Sick and Safe Time purposes, family member includes an employee’s: • Spouse or registered domestic partner • Child, foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian, or child to whom the employee stands or stood in local parentis • Sibling, step sibling or foster sibling • Biological, adoptive or foster parent, stepparent or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child • Grandchild, foster grandchild or step grandchild • Grandparent or step grandparent • A child of a sibling of the employee • A sibling of the parent of the employee or • A child-in-law or sibling-in-law • Any of the above family members of a spouse or registered domestic partner • Any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship • Up to one individual annually designated by the employee Weather Event Exception Consistent with Minnesota Statute § 181.9447, Subd. 12, an employee may not use sick and safe time for the “closure of the employee’s place of business due to weather or other public emergency or an employee’s need to care for a family member whose school or place of care has been closed due to weather or other public emergency.” if: