Effectively Managing Attendance-Related Issues: Leave, Attendance, Corrective Action, and Accommodation Presented by Barbara Haga & Deryn Sumner – Register Today!

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Course Summary

Leave and medical issues create a complex and seemingly burdensome issue, one often laced with emotion and intersecting – even conflicting – laws. This training will discuss and provide an understanding of Federal Leave Categories and Processes. The participant will get an overview of the Federal leave categories, covering everything from annual leave to parental bereavement to sick leave and leave without pay, including a discussion of the recent regs on notice leave. The training will discuss which leave categories are discretionary and which are entitlement and identify the limitations on each type of leave. Discuss leave-related Discipline and Medical Removals provide the foundation for connecting employee leave abuse with discipline. The training will provide the participant with the knowledge of the documentation necessary to discipline employees and the tools to hold them accountable. The participant will also learn approaches to remove an employee whose medical condition makes them unable to perform their job. The training will discuss Reasonable Accommodation (RA): Entitlements and Processes, tackling the often-complicated intersection between leave and disability accommodation. The participant will tools necessary for determining whether leave, flexible work schedules, or alternative work locations are effective accommodations. This training will discuss Medical Documentation, Medical Requests and Record Confidentiality focusing on the following questions, How do you make a decision on an employee’s request for accommodation without seeing their medical documentation? Who collects that information? Where does it go? And how do you determine if an employee with a medical condition is a direct threat? This training focuses on the correct handling and requesting of all things related to medical information, including medical exams and inquiries during the pre- and post-employment processes. Lastly, this training will discuss managing telework and Hybrid Workers. Telework is not just one of the most commonly requested RA for individuals who have physical and mental disabilities – it’s also one of the most effective. If someone is going to work away from the office, however, you’re going to need to set
expectations. This class will help you lay that groundwork.

Schedule

Day 1: Leave Use and Abuse

Day 1 will include an overview and background information followed by annual and sick leave, parental bereavement leave, disabled veteran leave, leave transfer, leave without pay, and other leave types as well as how the different leave types can be abused.

Day 2: FMLA Law and Policy

Day 2 will cover Title II coverage, FMLA basics, family member coverage under FMLA, administration of FMLA, medical documentation, serious health conditions and certifications, leave substitution, and corrective actions.

Day 3: Leave Related Discipline and Medical Removals

Day 3 will cover administrative leave, medical examinations, leave-relations actions, AWOL, falsification, failure to follow leave procedures and conditions of employment, and some options when an employee is medically unable to perform.

Day 4: Reasonable Accommodation Entitlements and Processes

Day 4 will cover who is and isn’t covered under the Amendments Act, proper procedures for responding to requests for accommodations, the interactive process, regarded as/record of/association with individuals with disabilities, how to conduct an accurate assessment of essential functions, creative approaches to responding to reasonable accommodation requests, and leave as an accommodation.

Day 5: Complex Issues in Reasonable Accommodation

Day 5 will cover telework and situational telework as a a reasonable accommodation, reassignment, how to establish undue hardship to providing accommodations, when agencies can (and when they need to) lawfully request medical documentation, best practices for storing medical information, when you can request medical information at different stages of employment, fitness-for-duty examinations, and direct threat.

Pricing

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Gilbert Training Group, LLC
8403 Colesville Rd., Ste. 1000
Silver Spring, MD 20910
TINS # 84-3026274
UEI # YDN4AJ3M1PN3

Disclaimers – Please Read
Credit card will be charged tuition approximately one week prior to the training, with receipts to the cardholder no later than the first date of training.
Purchase document invoices will be submitted on the last date of training with net 30 days terms.
Cancellations: Registration can only be cancelled by COB 07/13/2026, two weeks prior to the start of the training. Tuition has not been charged yet at this time, so refunds are not necessary.
Rescheduling requests after this deadline are subject to a $50 administrative fee. Substitutes with another student attending are limited to one sub filling in the original registrants’ registration dates.
There are no refunds, and no credit issued for partial attendance or ‘no-show’ of confirmed students’ tuitions.
Gilbert Training Group, LLC reserves the right to cancel. In the event that happens, you will receive a full refund of any fee charged.
IMPORTANT: If you do not receive an email confirmation from Gilbert Training Group within seven days of submission YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED. Call us immediately. Registrations confirmed subject to space availability.
Individual CLE applications and filing fees are the responsibility of each attorney attendee. Travel arrangements are the responsibility of the attendee.