Senior Living Handbook 2018

deployment, military events and related activities, childcare and school activities, financial and legal arrangements, counseling, rest and recuperation, post- deployment activities, and additional activities to which HHHunt and the team member agree. Covered service member caregiver leave is available for the eligible team members to care for (1) a current member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation or therapy, is in outpatient status, or is on the temporary disability retired list, and (2) a veteran undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a serious injury or illness and who was a member of the Armed Forces (including the National Guard or Reserves) at any time during the five years preceding the date on which the veteran undergoes treatment. Such care must relate to a serious injury or illness incurred in the line of duty on active duty or, in the case of a veteran, which existed before the beginning of the military service and was aggravated by service in the line of duty on active duty in the Armed Forces that renders the service member medically unfit to perform the duties of his or her office, grade, rank, or rating. “Next of kin” of a covered service member is defined as the nearest blood relative (other than the spouse, son, daughter, or parent) in the following order: blood relatives who have been granted legal custody, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles and first cousins, unless the covered service member has specifically designated in writing another blood relative as his or her nearest blood relative for purposes of military caregiver leave under the FMLA.

Amount of Leave: Spouses employed by HHHunt are entitled to a combined total of 12 weeks of Family and Medical Leave for the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child or to care for a parent with a serious health condition. Spouses remain eligible to take FMLA leave individually for other FMLA-qualifying reasons for the time that remains out of the original 12-week leave designation. Leave to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness may extend to up to 26 weeks in a single 12-month period. The “single 12-month period” begins from the date a team member first uses FMLA leave to care for the covered service member. During the “single 12-month period” a team member’s

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