HEALTH EMERGENCY

§875.__Employment leaves for caregivers and persons affected by

extreme public health emergency

1.__Required leave.__An employer shall grant reasonable and necessary leave from work, with or without pay, for an employee for the following reasons related to an extreme public health emergency:

A.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is under individual investigation, supervision or treatment related to an extreme public health emergency;

B.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is acting in accordance with an extreme public health emergency order;

C.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is in quarantine or isolation or is subject to a control measure in accordance with extreme public health emergency information or directions issued to the public, a part of the public or one or more individuals;

D.__The employee is unable to work because of a direction given by the employee's employer in response to a concern of the employer that the employee may expose other individuals in the workplace to the extreme public health emergency threat; or

E.__The employee is unable to work because the employee is needed to provide care or assistance to one or more of the following individuals:__the spouse or same-sex partner of the employee; a parent, stepparent or foster parent of the employee or the employee's spouse or same-sex partner; a child, stepchild or foster child of the employee or the employee's spouse or same-sex partner; the spouse or same- sex partner of a child of the employee; the employee's sibling; or a relative of the employee who is dependent on the employee for care or assistance.

For purposes of this subsection, "extreme public health emergency" has the same meaning as in Title 22, section 801, subsection 4-A.

2.__Exceptions.__An employer who fails to grant a leave under subsection 1 is not in violation of subsection 1 if: