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employee's family member, provided the absence is to: <br />o seek medical attention related to physical or psychological injury or disability <br />caused by domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; <br />0 obtain services from a victim services organization; <br />0 obtain psychological or other counseling; <br />o seek relocation or take steps to secure an existing home due to domestic <br />abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; or <br />o seek legal advice or take legal action, including preparing for or participating <br />in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or resulting from domestic <br />abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; <br />closure of the employee's place of business due to weather or other public <br />emergency or an employee's need to care for a family member whose school or <br />place of care has been closed due to weather or other public emergency; <br />the employee's inability to work or telework because the employee is: <br />o prohibited from working by the employer due to health concerns related to <br />the potential transmission of a communicable illness related to a public <br />emergency; or <br />o seeking or awaiting the results of a diagnostic test for, or a medical <br />diagnosis of, a communicable disease related to a public emergency and <br />such employee has been exposed to a communicable disease or the <br />employee's employer has requested a test or diagnosis; and <br />when it has been determined by the health authorities having jurisdiction or by a <br />health care professional that the presence of the employee or family member of <br />the employee in the community would jeopardize the health of others because of <br />the exposure of the employee or family member of the employee to a <br />communicable disease, whether or not the employee or family member has <br />actually contracted the communicable disease. <br />For the purposes of this subdivision, a public emergency shall include a declared <br />emergency as defined in MN Statute Section 12.03 or a declared local emergency <br />under MN Statute Section 12.29. <br />ESST may be used for the following family members: <br />■ an employee's: <br />o child, foster child, adult child, legal ward, child for whom the employee is <br />legal guardian, or child to whom the employee stands or stood in loco <br />parentis; <br />o spouse or registered domestic partner; <br />o sibling, stepsibling, or foster sibling; <br />o biological, adoptive, or foster parent, stepparent, or a person who stood in <br />loco parentis when the employee was a minor child; <br />o grandchild, foster grandchild, or stepffandENfdstep grandchild; <br />o grandparent or stepgrand1step grandparent; <br />o a child of a sibling of the employee (niece or nephew); <br />Page 26187 <br />Page 93 of 447 <br />