Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)

 

Employers are now facing increased risks for Disability Discrimination due to recent regulatory, legislative and court decisions. 

 

If you are an employer with five or more employees - you are at risk!

 

Federal law now mandates that employers engage in a rigorous and well-documented “interactive process” with disabled workers to address return-to-work and modified duty.   

 

Are your executives and HR professionals aware of these significant changes that have made disability discrimination the new wave in litigation?

• Will they recognize potential legal landmines before they explode into lawsuits?

• Will they handle return to work and reasonable accommodation decisions correctly?

• Are they trained to properly conduct and document the specific "interactive process" now required by law?

Due to the interaction with recent Workers Compensation reform legislation and the confusion that erupts with non-work-related compliance issues presented by many employers, CompWest is offering this free webinar to its clients.

 

Topic:  CompWest Disability Discrimination Webinar

Guest Presenter:  Patricia Eyres, Partner, Stuart Baron & Associates LLP

 

Agenda:                        
In this webinar, you will learn to:

• Recognize the legal risks of disability discrimination

• Handle return-to-work decisions and modified duty assignments for injured employees.

• Recognize how you could lose a disability lawsuit when if you don't conduct a timely, good faith interactive

• Conduct a legally defensible interactive process and investigate retaliation claims.

• Identify areas where you must develop or update your personnel policies and procedures so that you can spend your time managing, not litigating.

• Follow nine simple principles of effective documentation, so that business communications work for you (not against the organization) in a legal dispute.

If you are interested in viewing CompWest's Free FEHA Webinar, offered exclusively to CompWest Policyholders, please contact us with your company name and policy number.