FMLA, ADA, Workers' Comp & Other Leaves: What All Employers Must Know

Workers' Compensation Trust
47 Barnes Industrial Park Rd.
Wallingford, CT 06492

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This informative seminar will help employers understand their rights and responsibilities related to all types of personal, legal, medical and disability-related leaves and absences, including where the laws intersect and overlap. An employer’s workers’ compensation, restricted-duty work and reasonable accommodation obligations under state and federal law will be reviewed by Attorneys from Letizia, Ambrose & Falls, P.C. In addition, Attorney Heidi Lane, Legal Director at the Connecticut Department of Labor, will review the new Connecticut FMLA one year after its implementation, and discuss the interplay between an employer’s obligations under Connecticut FMLA, Federal FMLA, CT Paid Leave and other laws. Employers should not miss this important seminar.

Facilitators and Topics:

Connecticut’s New FMLA One Year Later and Federal FMLA Requirements.

Attorney Heidi Lane, Connecticut Department of Labor. Attorney Lane will discuss Connecticut’s new paid and unpaid FMLA laws, one year after implementation, including employer and employee rights and obligations. She will also discuss the interplay of the leave laws and provide insight into how to avoid a FMLA complaint filed with the Connecticut Department of Labor.

Employer’s ADA Obligations, Reasonable Accommodations and the Interactive Process.

Phyllis M. Pari, Partner, Letizia, Ambrose & Falls, PC. Attorney Pari will address workplace issues that arise under the ADA and the interplay between the ADA with the FMLA, including an employer’s obligation reasonably accommodate a disabled employee and engage in the interactive process. She will also address ADA leave obligations, transfer to available work, the ADA interactive process, the removal of non-essential job tasks and other ADA accommodations for the disabled worker.

The Other Leave Laws: Pregnancy Disability Leaves, WC Leaves & Light Duty Work, Personal Leaves & More

John M. Letizia, Managing Partner, Letizia, Ambrose & Falls, PC. Attorney Letizia will cover the other leave laws and legal obligations, pregnancy disability, workers’ compensation leaves, workers’ compensation restricted-duty obligations and personal leaves, including the interplay between workers’ compensation and the ADA accommodation requirements.

3.25 CEUs from LeadingAge CT

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