Leave in the Time of COVID: Managing Employee Leave Requests under FMLA, ADA

Duration:
60 Minutes  
Instructor
Janette S Levey

Paid-leave regulations are getting complicated. As support grows for (and some business groups push against) a national law mandating paid family leave and paid sick days, some states, cities and individual organizations are out in front-adopting measures of their own.

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Overview

Paid-leave regulations are getting complicated. As support grows for (and some business groups push against) a national law mandating paid family leave and paid sick days, some states, cities and individual organizations are out in front-adopting measures of their own. This proliferation and mishmash of regulations can make staying in compliance challenging.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • FMLA, ADA, and Workers’ Comp Basics
  • Where FMLA, ADA, and Workers’ Comp overlap, and where/how they differ
  • What it means to be “unable” to work or telework
  • COVID and ADA considerations
  • Post-FFCRA obligations and considerations
  • Screening for COVID
  • Vaccines and more

Who Will Benefit

  • R Directors
  • All HR Practitioners
  • CEO’s
  • Business Owners
  • Senior Managers
  • Leave Administrators
  • Benefits Administrators
  • CFO’s
  • Controllers
  • Payroll/Compensation Officers
  • In-House Counsel

Speaker Profile

Janette S Levey “The Employer’s Lawyer” has over 20 years of legal experience, more than 10 of which she has spent in Employment Law. It was during her tenure as sole in-house counsel for a mid-size staffing company headquartered in Central New Jersey, with operations all over the continental US, that she truly developed her passion for Employment Law.

Janette works with employers on most employment law issues, to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. Janette has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.

Janette has served on the Workplace Violence Prevention Institute, a multidisciplinary task force dedicated to providing proactive, holistic solutions to employers serious about promoting workplace safety and preventing workplace violence. Janette currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Child and Family Resources of Morris County, New Jersey.

Janette has also spoken and trained on topics, such as Criminal Background Checks in the Hiring Process, Joint Employment, Severance Arrangements, Addressing and Preventing Employee Leave Abuse, Pre-Employment Screening among many, many others.
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