A serious health condition varies but includes:

• Conditions such as cancer
• Heart attacks
• Heart bypass or valve operations
• Strokes
• Severe injuries
• Kidney dialysis
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Clinical depression
• Mental conditions that require impatient care or continuing treatments
• Pregnancy and childbirth

Sick leave for pregnancy and childbirth may only be granted for the period of the mother’s incapacitation, but not for bonding or to care for a healthy newborn.

Serious health conditions do not cover short-term conditions for which treatment and recovery are very brief nor conditions such as the flu, common cold, earaches, routine dental or orthodontia problems, etc., unless complications arise.