Agenda - Council Work Session - 10/24/2023

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works at least 80 hours in a year for an employer in Minnesota, but does not include independent contractors. Temporary and part-time employees are covered under the law. Employers must provide each employee in Minnesota with one hour of ESST for every 30 hours worked, with the ability to accumulate at least 48 hours of ESST each year. An employer's existing leave policy, such as PTO, may already meet Minnesota's ESST requirements. What can earned sick and safe time be used for? Employees can use their earned sick and safe time for reasons such as: 1. the employee's mental or physical illness, treatment or preventive care; 2. a family member's mental or physical illness, treatment or preventive care; 3. absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member; 4. closure of the employee's workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member's school or care facility due to weather or public emergency; and 5. when determined by a health authority or health care professional that the employee or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease. For which family members can an employee use ESST? Employees may use earned sick and safe time for the following family members: 1. their child, including foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian or child to whom the employee stands or stood in loco parentis (in place of a parent); 2. their spouse or registered domestic partner; 3. their sibling, stepsibling or foster sibling; 4. their biological, adoptive or foster parent, stepparent or a person who stood in loco parentis (in place of a parent) when the employee was a minor child; 5. their grandchild, foster grandchild or step-grandchild; 6. their grandparent or step-grandparent; 7. a child of a sibling of the employee; 8. a sibling of the parents of the employee; 9. a child-in-law or sibling-in-law; 10.any of the family members (1 through 9 above) of an employee's spouse or registered domestic partner; 11.any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship; and 12.up to one individual annually designated by the employee.