Event Details

ADA Accommodations & Undue Hardships

Can we accommodate that?  This session will walk through the steps to evaluate an employee’s request for an accommodation due to their disability under the framework of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  We will discuss:

• What is a disability?
• Who is a qualified individual?
• The ADA good faith interactive process and the role of medical information
• The undue burden defense
• The direct threat exception

The session will integrate the EEOC Guidance on reasonable accommodations and undue hardship, interactive hypotheticals, and real case scenarios to illustrate these steps.

Following this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Understand the framework for analyzing ADA requests for reasonable accommodations
• Evaluate the role that undue hardship and direct threat play in that role
• Develop tools and forms to request medical information to assist in the interactive process

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Speaker:  Jill Welch, Esq., Barley Snyder, LLP 

Ms. Welch is Chair of Barley Snyder's Employment Practice Group.  She represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment litigation and councels employers on leave issues, workplace investigations, employment policies, handbook provisions, and employment, non-compete and severance agreements.