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Regular part-time employees are eligible to earn vacation leave in proportion to that earned by <br /> regular full-time employees based on the number of hours worked.Vacation leave will count <br /> toward total budgeted work hours for the year. <br /> 6.2 Traditional Sick Leave and Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) <br /> Traditional sick leave shall include and may be authorized when the employee is unable to perform work <br /> duties due to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental, or chiropractic care, childbirth, or <br /> exposure to contagious disease where such exposure may endanger the health of others with whom the <br /> employee would come in contact in the course of performing work duties. Traditional sick leave may also <br /> be authorized,when the employee's presence is necessary,for actual illness,injury,legal quarantine,or <br /> medical treatment for serious illness in the employee's immediate family. Immediate family, for the <br /> purposes of this policy, shall be defined as spouse, parent, step-parent, children, step-children,brother, <br /> sister,grandparents,grandchildren or a like member of employee's spouse's family.Traditional sick may <br /> be used as listed above and does not include the expanded ESST uses and expanded-ESST family members <br /> as it may differ from ES ST. It may benefit employees to first draw upon the traditional sick leave accrual <br /> so long as the reason for using sick leave meets the traditional sick leave criteria and save their ESST time <br /> for situations that require the expanded uses allowed under ESST. <br /> To be eligible for traditional sick leave with pay,an employee shall: <br /> (1) report as soon as possible to the EMPLOYEE'S department head the need for sick leave and <br /> whether the sick leave is for the employee, employee's child, adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, <br /> grandparent or stepparent; <br /> (2) keep the employee's department head informed of the need for continued sick leave if the <br /> absence is of more than three(3)days duration; <br /> (3) submit a medical certificate for any absence if required by the City Administrator; <br /> (4) provide the employer with sufficient information needed in order to comply with the Family <br /> and Medical Leave Act. <br /> Earned sick and safe time(ESST)eligible uses shall include: 1.the employees mental or physical illness, <br /> treatment or preventive care;2.a family member's mental or physical illness,treatment or preventive care; <br /> 3.absence due to domestic abuse,sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member;4.closure <br /> of the employee's workplace due to weather or public emergency or closure of a family member's school <br /> or care facility due to weather or public emergency;and 5.when determined by a health authority or health <br /> care professional that the employee or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable <br /> disease. <br /> Earned sick and safe time eligible family members shall include:1. Employee's child, including foster <br /> child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is legal guardian or child to whom the <br /> employee stands or stood in loco parentis (in place of a parent); 2. their spouse or registered domestic <br /> partner; 3. their sibling, stepsibling or foster sibling; 4. their biological, adoptive or foster parent, <br /> stepparent or a person who stood in loco parentis(in place of a parent)when the employee was a minor <br /> child; 5.their grandchild,foster grandchild or step-grandchild; 6.their grandparent or step-grandparent; <br /> 7. a child of a sibling of the employee; 8. a sibling of the parents of the employee; 9. a child-in-law or <br /> sibling-in-law; 10.any of the family members(1 through 9 above)of an employee's spouse or registered <br /> domestic partner; 11.any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee <br /> 351Page <br />