Accommodating Bad Behavior: The Limits on Disciplining Disabled Employees Description
Absenteeism, tardiness, emotional outbursts and alcoholism. When is an employee's bad behavior disability related and what bad behaviors are employers required to accommodate? This interactive workshop will help employers navigate the intersection between disability, leave and discipline. You will learn what to do when an employee identifies a disability in response to proposed disciplinary action. We will discuss the interactive process and how to identify reasonable accommodations. We also discuss how and when to separate a disabled employee, including the disability retirement process.
Presenter
Oliver Yee provides representation and legal counsel to Liebert Cassidy Whitmore's city, county, special district, school and community college district, and public safety clients. His practice involves representing and advising clients on a variety of labor and employment issues including labor negotiations, laws and regulations of public employment retirement plans, unfair labor practices, employee grievances, leave and disability issues, the Fair Labor Standards Act, personnel policies, and disciplinary actions. Olivier has extensive experience in labor negotiations, having represented public agency clients as their chief negotiator in all aspects of the negotiation process. Oliver also regularly advises clients on a variety of retirement law issues, including pension reform, disability retirements, and strategies to address pension costs. Oliver is a prolific presenter in Liebert Cassidy Whitmore's training program. He regularly provides trainings to governing bodies, managers, supervisors and rank and file employees on relevant labor and employment topics.
Important reminder regarding ERMA trainings
It is our members’ responsibility to keep track of the employees who have attended ERMA trainings for compliance purposes. ERMA does not generate a sign-in sheet or keep a record of attendees. At the end of the training, all attendees will be given a certificate of completion indicating the date and title of the training and name of the trainer. For your own compliance purposes, we strongly recommend that you keep copies of the certificates for each employee who attended the training, along with a copy of the training materials. These are sometimes requested as part of discovery in employment lawsuits, or by various administrative agencies.
If you have questions regarding training document retention, please contact Kathy Maylin at
kmaylin@bickmore.net or
(916) 244-1181
. For questions regarding scheduling, please contact Taylor Doris at
tdoris@bickmore.net or
(916) 244-1174.