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potential transmission of a communicable illness related to a public <br /> emergency, or seeking or awaiting the results of a diagnostic test for, or a <br /> medical diagnosis of,a communicable disease related to a public emergency <br /> and the employee has been exposed to a communicable disease or the city <br /> has requested a test or diagnosis. <br /> o Absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking of the employee <br /> provided the absence is to: <br /> ■ Seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or <br /> disability 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 <br /> domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking <br /> ■ Seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or <br /> participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or <br /> resulting from domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking <br /> B. 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 <br /> illness, 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 <br /> public emergency <br /> o When it has been determined by health authority or a health care <br /> professional that the presence of the family member of the employee in the <br /> community would jeopardize the health of others because of the exposure <br /> of the family member of the employee to a communicable disease,whether <br /> or not the family member has actually contracted the communicable disease <br /> o Absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee's <br /> family member provided the absence is to: <br /> ■ Seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or <br /> disability 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 <br /> domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking <br /> ■ Seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or <br /> participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or <br /> resulting from domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking <br /> 6. Family Members <br /> For ESST 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 <br /> guardian, or child to whom the employee stands or stood in loco parentis <br /> • Sibling, step sibling or foster sibling <br /> 2 <br />