Medical leaves are governed by many laws that can create difficult compliance issues for an employer. These laws are: the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA); the Americans with Disability Act (ADA); workers’ compensation laws; the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Understanding the basics of these laws, as well as the similarities, the distinctions and the interrelationships among them , is critical to your business. This 90-minute webinar will provide a wealth of practical advice to enable HR professionals, attorneys and business executives to learn how to comply with these laws that affect medical leaves.
Agenda
This program will cover:
- The basics of compliance with:
- FMLA
- Disability and Accommodation under the ADA
- Workers’ Compensation Law,
- USERRA’s disability leave provisions
- HIIPAA’s effect on medical information sharing
- Specific challenges under these often conflicting laws:
- Running leaves concurrently under multiple laws
- FMLA leave as accommodation under ADA
- Tacking absence under USERRA
- Notification and documentation requirements
- Permitted inquiries and medical examinations
Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq.
Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With fifteen years’ experience, Deirdre focuses her practice on labor and employment law, social media and technology law, HIPAA and business law. Specific areas of her employment law practice include discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, business contracts, unemployment compensation, LGBT issues, labor disputes, FMLA, military leave, social media litigation, information privacy and technology, agency compliance, and medical record privacy. Her clients include companies, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals. Her work includes consultative and legal services, from outsourced HR and social media services to hearings, litigation, and appellate work. Deirdre also regularly provides training and education for companies and individuals. Deirdre is licensed to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court; she also has been admitted as an expert witness in social media and networking.
Deirdre is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions: she was selected as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Business Journal, she received the Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association, she received a grant from the Public Justice Foundation for her pro bono work on HIV/AIDS, and she was recently nominated as one of the Top Twenty-Five Women of Influence in the Lehigh Valley.
Aside from the practice of law, Deirdre serves as the President and Diversity Chair for Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Lehigh Valley. Deirdre currently teaches as an adjunct professor at DeSales University in the MBA Program in both the HR and Healthcare Concentrations.
Deirdre earned her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law, a Distinguished Master’s Degree in International Studies from the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland, and a Bachelor’s Degree from Brandeis University.