ADA/FMLA Leave Issues

Start Date - Friday,
January 31,2025
End Date - Friday,
January 31,2025
Available:
All Days
Duration:
90 Minutes
Event Type :
Recorded Webinar
Category:
Human Resources
Overview :

Human resource professionals know it is no longer easy to handle employee leaves. Instead of being concerned with company leave policies and workers’ compensation claims; employers now have to consider a host of other laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. During this webinar, we will walk you through this minefield. In this webinar you will learn:

Agenda:-

  • When employees are entitled to intermittent or other leave under the FMLA
  • What is a serious health condition under the FMLA
  • Calculating intermittent leave under the FMLA
  • When a leave of absence can be a reasonable accommodation under the ADA
  • Is attendance an essential function of a job
  • New EEOC guidelines under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
  • When can you terminate for excessive absenteeism/tardiness
  • Running paid leaves concurrently with the FMLA.

Who will Benefit?

  • HR Professionals
  • Leave Management Coordinators
  • Compliance Officers
  • Benefits Administrators
  • Employee Relations Managers
  • Legal Advisors
  • Payroll Administrators
  • Managers and Supervisors.

Instructor:

Lauren Sobaski is an associate in the firm’s Kansas City office. She focuses her practice on employment discrimination and related litigation, employment law training, drafting policies and procedures, and wage and hour law.

Before engaging in the practice of law, Lauren spent 15 years in human resource management. This experience gives her a unique insight into the employment law matters that are most important to her clients. Most recently, Lauren was a human resource consultant at Paychex, where she provided human resource management to 75 businesses operating in 20 states. Lauren’s significant career in human resources positions her well to work with her clients to identify and obtain practical business solutions to their toughest employment issues.

Lauren is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), which is issued by the Human Resource Certification Institute, and a Society of Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).

During law school, Lauren served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr. in the United States District Court, Western District of Missouri. She also interned at the United States Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor, where she worked on OSHA and wage and hour investigations.

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