; and (B) contact the employer or the designee of the employer, or wait to be contacted by the employer or designee, to determine whether the employee is required to report to work at that time. (19) Parent The term parent means a biological or adoptive parent, a stepparent, or a person who stood in a parental relationship to an employee when the employee was a child. (20) Parental relationship The term parental relationship means a relationship in which a person assumed the obligations incident to parenthood for a child and discharged those obligations before the child reached adulthood. (21) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Labor. (22) Serious health condition The term serious health condition has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ( 29 U.S.C. 2611 ). (23) Sibling The term sibling means a brother or sister, whether related by half blood, whole blood, or adoption, or as a stepsibling. (24) Split shift The term split shift means a schedule of daily hours in which the hours worked are not consecutive, except that— (A) a schedule in which the total time out for meals does not exceed one hour shall not be treated as a split shift; and (B) a schedule in which the break in the employee's work shift is requested by the employee shall not be treated as a split shift. (25) Spouse The term spouse means a person with whom an individual entered into— (A) a marriage as defined or recognized under State law in the State in which the marriage was entered into