Qualifying Reasons for Leave

Eligible employees may take leave for the following reasons:

• For the birth of the employee’s child, or placement of the child with the employee for adoption or foster care;
• To care for the employee’s spouse, registered domestic partner (under the CFRA), child or parent with a serious health condition;
• For the employee’s own serious health condition, which prevents him or her from performing the functions of his/her position;
• Because of a qualifying exigency (as defined under the FMLA) arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on active duty or call to covered active duty status (“Military Exigency Leave”); or
• To care for an immediate family member or next-of-kin who is a covered service member recovering from a serious injury or illness sustained in the line of active military duty (“Military Caregiver Leave”).