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66 12/2024 <br /> <br /> <br />• Whose school or place of care has been closed due to weather or other public emergency <br />• When it has been determined by health authority or a health care professional that the <br />presence of the family member of the employee in the community would jeopardize the <br />health of others because of the exposure of the family member of the employee to a <br />communicable disease, whether or not the family member has actually contracted the <br />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 />- Seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or disability <br />caused by domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking <br />- Obtain services from a victim services organization <br />- Obtain psychological or other counseling <br />- Seek relocation or take steps to secure an existing home due to domestic abuse, <br />sexual assault or stalking <br />- 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 />For Earned Sick and Safe Time purposes, family member includes an employee’s: <br />• Spouse or registered domestic partner <br />• Child, foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian, or child to <br />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 when the <br />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 the <br />equivalent of a family relationship <br />• Up to one individual annually designated by the employee <br /> <br />WEATHER EVENT EXCEPTION <br />Consistent with Minnesota Statute § 181.9447, Subd. 12, an employee may not use sick and safe time for <br />the “closure of the employee’s place of business due to weather or other public emergency or an <br />employee’s need to care for a family member whose school or place of care has been closed due to <br />weather or other public emergency.” if: <br />1. the employee's preassigned or foreseeable work duties during a public emergency or <br />weather event would require the employee to respond to the public emergency or <br />weather event. <br />2. the employee is a firefighter. <br /> <br />ADVANCE NOTICE FOR USE OF ESST <br />If the need for sick and safe leave is foreseeable, the city requires seven (7) days advance notice. However,