How To Manage Reasonable-And Unreasonable-ADA Accommodation Requests

The ADA Amendments Act made managing your ADA responsibilities tougher by substantially changing certain compliance requirements.

Specifically, the law broadened the list of Major Life Activities re "major bodily functions", creating a way for employees to game the system. In fact, it's been reported that some dishonest employees are asking their doctors to write out, specifically, what they want as an accommodation!

This must-attend training session will help to ensure you are current on the law, understand how to identify true, qualified disabilities, how to handle employee accommodation requests, and how to handle requests that are unreasonable and create an undue hardship on the employer.

Learning Objectives:

This training session will help you to understand:

• The ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), including significant changes in what constitutes a disability
  
• How to determine if an employee has a qualified disability - and how to document appropriately
  
• How to identify specific challenges when handling issues involving mental disabilities such as Bipolar Affective Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Depression, and others
  
• How to manage the balancing act of providing reasonable accommodations while also handling the "sticky issues" such as declining employee performance, absenteeism, and unreasonable requests
  
• How to document an “undue hardship” to provide the basis for denying an employee a reasonable accommodation

HRCI Credits

This program has been approved for 1.5 re-certification credit hours for HRCI's PHR and SPHR designations through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for re-certification credit.

SHRM Professional Development Credits

This program is valid for 1.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP designations. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

Reasonable Accommodation Compliance Training Course, Reasonable Accommodation Requirements