; or (ii) any other person determined by the Secretary to be capable of providing health care services; and (B) is not employed by a rail carrier for whom the provider issues certification under this section. (8) Paid sick time The term paid sick time means an increment of compensated leave that— (A) can be earned by a rail carrier employee for use during an absence from employment for any of the reasons described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 20(b); and (B) is compensated at a rate that is not less than the regular rate of pay of the rail carrier employee. (9) Parent The term parent means a biological, foster, or adoptive parent of a rail carrier employee, a stepparent of a rail carrier employee, parent-in-law, parent of a domestic partner, or a legal guardian or other person who stood in loco parentis to a rail carrier employee when the rail carrier employee was a child. (10) Rail carrier employee The term rail carrier employee means an employee of a rail carrier who performs work that has been traditionally performed by employees in a railroad industry craft or class recognized under the paragraph designated Ninth of section 2 of the Railway Labor Act ( 45 U.S.C. 152 ), including any employee who performs— (A) work with respect to the movement of trains; (B) maintenance of way work; (C) signal work; (D) work for purposes of the inspection, maintenance, repair, or cleaning of locomotives, rail maintenance facilities, rail-related equipment, or rail cars; (E) dispatching work; (F) work with respect to controlling the movement of equipment within a rail yard