Employees or their immediate family member. A family member means an employee’s spouse or domestic partner or a person related to an employee or an employee’s spouse or domestic partner as:
- a biological, adopted or foster child, a stepchild or legal ward, or a child to whom the employee stands in loco parentis;
- a biological, foster, step or adoptive parent or legal guardian, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child;
- a grandparent;
- a grandchild;
- a biological, foster, step or adopted sibling;
- a spouse or domestic partner of a family member; or
- an individual whose close association with the employee or the employee's spouse or domestic partner is the equivalent of a family relationship.