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
Che Johnson, an associate at Liebert Cassidy and Whitmore, represents clients in all aspects of labor relations and employment law including complex negotiations and collective bargaining issues, wage and hour disputes, employee discipline, claims of discrimination and harassment. He has specific expertise in represented clients in labor negotiations and litigation, including civil litigation trails and administrative hearings before State agencies such as the Public Employment Relations Board and the State Personnel Board. Prior to joining Liebert Cassidy and Whitmore, Che worked with a national full-service firm where he represented employers in employment litigation matters. Che has represented various State agencies and departments in labor and employment matters arising under the Ralph C. Dills Act.
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.