ADA Crackdown Boot Camp Recording

How To Protect Yourself from Lawsuits as Legal Protections Expand

Virtual Boot Camp: Rigorous, Intensive
Webinar Training from the Comfort of Your Office

The New ADA: More Protective Than Ever Before

The recent changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) brought with them a widening of the umbrella of protection provided to employees. Now, more conditions – and more employees – are protected by the law than ever before. If you’re not up to speed on all the nuances, you could easily find yourself on the wrong end of a costly lawsuit – even if your intentions are good.

Join Us for Virtual Boot Camp

Join us on Wednesday, February 2, for an intensive virtual boot camp all about your obligations under the ADA – and how to protect yourself. In under 6 hours, you and your team will be up to speed on everything you need to know.

Stay for the whole training and earn up to 5 hours of HRCI credit, right from your own office. Each session will include about 60 minutes of presentation time, followed by 15 minutes of live Q&A. You can submit your questions in real time, either over the phone or using the webinar interface - anonymously, if you wish. Bring your whole team along, and get everyone trained at the same time for one low price.

It’s incredibly convenient, cost-effective training.

Webinar Schedule
(All times below are Eastern – please adjust for your time zone.)

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session 1: New ADA Enforcement Emphasis: What To Watch Out For

• Why the “new ADA” is more inclusive than ever before
• The increased number of people, and conditions, that may now be covered
• The most common types of claims pursued by the EEOC, and how to avoid becoming a target
• How to distinguish between a garden-variety illness or injury and a more serious condition that may be covered under the ADA

12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Break

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Session 2: Disability-Related Questions and Medical Examinations

• What you can – and can’t – ask before and after an employee is hired
• The rules on fitness-for-duty and other medical exams
• How to make sure your employees have what they need without asking intrusive – and possibly illegal - questions
• Why you need to watch out for inadvertent “regarded-as” bias

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Break

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Session 3: The Reasonable Accommodation Dialogue: What You Need to Do and Say

• What triggers your obligation to engage in the interactive process
• The goals of the reasonable accommodation dialogue – and how to know when you’ve achieved them
• What your supervisors need to know about the reasonable accommodation process
• How to minimize the risk of retaliation claims

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Break

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Session 4: The Intersection of ADA, FMLA, and Workers’ Comp

• What these laws require, and in what order to apply them
• What to do in the event of a conflict
• The key distinctions between “serious health condition,” “disability,” and “workplace injury”
• How to prevent intermittent absence abuse

About Your Speakers

Alex Drummond, Esq., is a partner in the Labor and Employment Department in the Atlanta office of Seyfarth Shaw, LLP. His practice includes the representation of management in employment litigation matters before state and federal courts, at trial and appellate levels, as well as federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Florida Commission on Human Relations. Drummond counsels clients on a wide variety of employment matters, including disability accommodation, family and medical leave under federal and state laws, workplace investigations, training, background checks, pre-hire testing, performance assessment and discipline, workforce reductions-in-force, whistleblower claims, defamation, handbooks and policies review, and terminations.

Frederick ‘Fritz’ Smith, Esq., is a partner in the Atlanta office of Seyfarth Shaw, LLP. Smith represents management in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters. He devotes the majority of his practice to state and federal court litigation and arbitration (AAA and FINRA) matters, including actions involving the enforcement of restrictive covenants, state law tort and contract claims, and claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and various other local, state and federal statutes. Smith has significant experience representing employers in numerous industries in all phases of multi-plaintiff, class action, and collective action litigation under Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA and the FLSA.

Ellen McLaughlin, Esq., is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw, LLP and former national Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department. She is engaged in a broad-based employment and labor relations law practice, specializing in federal and state court and administrative agency employment litigation. McLaughlin has been actively involved in following the developments of the ADA since its passage in July, 1990. In early 1991, she co-authored comments to the EEOC's proposed regulations on behalf of a national employer coalition. Again in 2009, she drafted comments to the proposed regulations under the ADA Amendments Act on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and SHRM. McLaughlin has been closely following the Family and Medical Leave Act since its passage in early 1993. On behalf of national employer groups, she edited and co authored comments to the DOL prior to the issuance of both the interim final rules and final rules. Most recently in 2008, she assisted a national employer coalition group in drafting comments to the DOL's second set of proposed regulations.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

How Do Webinars Work?

A webinar is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office, using a regular telephone and a computer with an Internet connection. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the webinar is live, you can ask the speakers questions—either on the phone or via e-mail.

You will receive access instructions via e-mail several days before the event. You don't need any additional materials before the webinar starts. Your webinar materials will be available for you to view, print, and download when you log in to participate in the event.