What is a Qualifying Reason for FML

• A serious health condition of the employee that prevents the employee from performing his or her job as certified by a health care provider;
• Birth of a child;
• Placement of the child with the employee for adoption or foster care;
• Care for a child during the first year following birth, adoption or foster care placement;
• Care for an immediate family member* who has a serious health condition as certified by a health care provider; or
• A qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, domestic partner, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty.”
• Care for a covered service member allows eligible employees to have job protected time off for up to 26 work weeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the service member’s spouse, son, daughter, parent or next of kin.

*Pursuant to the FML policy, an “immediate family member” includes: spouse or domestic partner, biological, adoptive, step-, or foster parent, individual who stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a child; or biological, adopted, step-, or foster child; a legal ward; or a child of a person standing in loco parentis to the child who is under 18 years of age or 18 years of age or older and incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability.

Refer to the Family and Medical Leave Policy for additional information on FML qualifying events.