Even parents with good child care arrangements find it difficult to make arrangements for the care of their sick children.
Employers can allow working parents to use their sick leave benefits to care for their ill children.
The Family and Medical Leave Act also provides covered, eligible employees with 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a child with a serious health condition or to take care of the employee's serious health condition. In the event of illness of a member of the registered nurse's family, the registered nurse shall be paid from available sick time, vacation time or personal days. The nurse shall inform her supervisor of the expected number of days she is to be absent for this reason. Sick Leave with pay is hereby defined to mean a necessary absence form duty due to illness, injury, or exposure to contagious disease and may include absence due to illness or death in the immediate family or the employee or necessary attendance upon a member of the immediate family who is ill.