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6.2 Traditional Cick l eaye-and-Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) Traditional sick leave shall include and may be authorized when the employee is unable to perform work duties due to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental, or chiropractic care, childbirth, or exposure to contagious disease th t y where such exposure may endanger the health of others with whom the employee would come into contact while in the course of performing work duties. _Traditional sick leave may also be authorized_, when the employee's illness in the employee's immediate family. For the .0 .ose of this .olic "immmediate family", is for the purposes of this policy, shall be defined as pl yee's spouse, parent, step parent, children, step children, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren, or a similar family mcmbcr like member of the employee's spouse's family. Traditional sick may ly be used for the reasonsas listed above and does not include the expanded ESST uses and expanded ESST family members covered by_as it may differ from ESST. E p1 vecslt may find it beneficial to benefit employees to first draw upon the traditional sick leave accrual f t, provided so long as the reason for using sick leave meets the traditional sick leave criteria, and save their ESST time for situations that require the expanded uses allowed under ESST. To be eligible for traditional sick leave with pay, an employee mustshall: 11 (1) Rreport as soon as possible to the EMPLOYEE'S p1 yee's Ddepartment Hhead the need for sick leave and whether the sick leave is for the employee thciremployce's child, adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent or stepparent,; II—(2) Kkeep the employee's Ddepartment Hhead informed of the need for continued sick leave if the absence is of more than three (3) days duration 1—(3) Ssubmit a medical certificate for any absence if required by the CityC.ty Administrator,; (1) Pprovide the employer with sufficient information needed in order to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act. Eligible uses of earned sick and safe time include: The employee's own mental or physical illness, treatment, or preventive care. A family member's mental or physical illness, treatment, or preventive care. Absence due to domestic abuse sexual assault, or stalking of the employee or a family member. Closure of the employee's workplace due to weather or a public emergency, or closure of a family member's school or care facility for the same reasons. A determination by a health authority or healthcare professional that the employee or a family member is at risk of infecting others with a communicable disease. Eligible family members for earned sick and safe time include: 301Page