What reasons can an employee use sick leave?
Sick leave with pay may be taken when sickness, injury, or pregnancy and confinement prevent the employee’s performance of duty or when the employee is needed to care and assist a member of the immediate family who is actually ill, who is living in the same household and is related by kinship, adoption, or marriage, including foster children certified by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). An employee who is the father of a child may use his sick leave in conjunction with the child’s birth, only if the child is actually ill; or to care for his spouse while she is recovering from labor at delivery. A Physician’s statement is required, if absent more than three days. An employee may use sick leave in conjunction with FLMA for the adoption of a child under three years of age, regardless of whether or not the child is actually ill at the time of adoption.
