Piper has been working as a salesman at Cosmo Pools, a company with close to 55 employees, for the past five years. She becomes the legal guardian of her six-year-old nephew after her sister and her husband die in a car crash. She informs her supervisor that she would need the next couple of weeks off to arrange for hers nephew's care. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Cosmo Pools:.
A. is required to grant the leave only if Piper agrees to work overtime without any compensation after she returns to work from her leave.
B. does not have to grant the leave because the act applies only to employers with more than 100 employees.
C. does not have to grant the leave because Piper did not give 60 days' notice.
D. is required to grant the leave because the act extends the right to care for a child to an employee who is acting as a parent.

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