In order to approve your request for FMLA leave, CUNY is requesting information and documentation of your relationship to the individual for
whom you will be caring or for whom you are otherwise taking leave.
Under the FMLA, family members include:
- Parents (biological, adoptive, step or foster father or mother, or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the employee when the
employee was a son or daughter)
- Spouse
- Child (biological, adoptive, step or foster children, legal wards, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis of the employee). Note: Child
must be either under age 18, or age 18 or older and "incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability" at the time that FMLA
leave is to commence.
Family members do not include in-laws, grandparents, siblings and other extended family members.
For purposes of military caregiver leave under FMLA, next of kin of a covered service member means the nearest blood relative other than the
covered service member's spouse, parent, son or daughter in the following order of priority:
- blood relatives who have been granted legal custody of the covered service member by court decree or statutory provisions
- brothers and sisters
- grandparents
- aunts and uncles
- first cousins
UNLESS the covered service member has specifically designated in writing another blood relative (the employee) as his or her nearest blood
relative for purposes of military caregiver leave under the FMLA.