Check Out Our Certificate Program in FMLA & ADA Compliance

Want to get your FMLA and ADA compliance certificate? HR Training Center provides the industry leading training, material, and presentation you need to excel. People who have taken the certificate program in FMLA and ADA compliance from HR Training Center have an advantage over those that have gone elsewhere.

Take a look at the Agenda for HR Training Center’s 3 day FMLA & ADA compliance training program:

Day 1: The Family And Medical Leave Act

• Key terms and definitions
• Who’s covered and why
• Employee Eligibility And Leave Entitlement
• Paid and unpaid leave options
• Intermittent and reduced-schedule leaves
• Special rules for school employees
• Employer posting requirements
• Notifications
• Communicating with employees who are out of work
• Medical Certifications
• Fitness-for-duty testing
• Return-to-work options
• FMLA job and benefits restoration
• Tracking leave
• Ending Leave
• Recovering benefits costs incurred during FMLA leave
• RIFs involving protected employees
• Documentation strategies that protect your organization

Interactive Exercises:

• Various case studies on eligibility and administrative requirements

Day 2: The Americans with Disabilities Act

• Key terms and definitions
• The laws protecting disabled individuals from discrimination
• Who’s covered and why
• Employment practices that are prohibited by the ADA
• Employer posting requirements
• Identifying Essential Job Functions And Qualified Individuals
• Reasonable Accommodations
• Job restructuring or additional training
• Medical exams
• Confidentiality of medical information
• Confidentiality in accommodations
• Responding when an individual refuses an offered accommodation
• Modifications
• Light or modified duty
• Collective Bargaining Agreements

Interactive Exercises:

• Determining what is a substantial limitation to a major life activity
• Analyzing reasonable accommodation requests

Day 3: ADA and FMLA Best Practices, Plus Compliance With Other Leave Laws

Day three covers some of the tips and methods for managing the integration of leave laws, including:

• Workers’ Compensation
• State family leave and paid family leave laws
• State laws for jury duty, voting, bereavement, school activities, vacation, and more
• Pregnancy leave and accommodation
• Military leave
• Wellness plans
• Distinguishing between an FMLA “serious health condition” and an ADA “disability”
• Managing the interplay between leave requirements under the ADA and FMLA
• Handling Workers’ Comp claims that have ADA and FMLA ramifications
• When you can run leave times concurrently under FMLA and workers’ comp
• Coordinating case management
• Options for refilling positions while an employee is out
• Strategies For Reducing Absenteeism And Impacts To Productivity

Interactive Exercises:

• Various case studies on overlapping leave and disability law dilemmas