This session presents a comprehensive overview of the significant changes to disability law resulting from the final ADAAA Regulations and the current EEOC Enforcement Initiatives targeting leaves of absence and no-fault attendance policies.

Session content includes, but is not limited to:

• Legal implications of the final ADAAA regulations
• Summary of current cases and recent settlements
• Summary of EEOC enforcement initiatives
• Strategies and best practices for reducing liability

Learning objectives include, but are not limited to:

• Gain knowledge and understanding of current legal trends relating to labor, employment and benefits issues
• Explore potential HR policy changes relating to labor, employment and benefits issues to ensure legal compliance
• Explore best practices and other strategies to reduce liability and organizational risk with respect to labor, employment and benefits issues and best position company in today’s legal environment

In this presentation we will engage participants in an interactive mock deposition process to examine best practices for Human Resources professionals when making decisions regarding employee discipline, performance reviews, investigations, and terminations. By analyzing the deposition and cross-examination of a Human Resources Manager and Company CEO in a gender discrimination case, we will highlight and compare those HR practices that work well, and those that could result in catastrophic consequences for employers. Lessons learned from past HR missteps, such as deleted emails and documents added to personnel files after the fact, are an effective and fun way to learn employment discrimination law.

This presentation begins with an overview of the federal and state employment laws which hospitals and other companies are most likely to encounter.  The session then focuses on liability issues which commonly arise during the course of a typical employment relationship, and provides risk management strategies and “best practices” for minimizing the potential liability associated with the hiring, management, and termination of employees.

Employers are often surprised to learn that what may be permissible under one law may not necessarily eliminate liability under another.  This presentation includes a summary of the key provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act, as well as a case-study approach illustrating the critical importance of analyzing employment issues with both statutes in mind.