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Service Animals in the Workplace: What You Need to Know

Thursday, April 19, 2018

1:00 - 2:00 pm EST

Length: 1 hour                    Sponsored by Lorman Education Services


Registration - Live Webinar Only: $209.00

Registration - Live Webinar Plus CD Recording: $278.00

 

Get the necessary tools to comply with the ADA and avoid both bad press and costly claims from service animal situations.

Get the necessary tools to comply with the ADA and avoid both bad press and costly claims from service animal situations. Many employers are now confronting difficult ADA issues relating to service animals in the workplace.

This topic will give you the information to know what animals qualify as service animals and how an employer can determine if an animal is really a service animal versus a comfort animal. It will also address if an employer must provide food, a relief area, someone to walk a service animal and breaks for walking.

You will also learn when a service animal may be excluded from the workplace or certain areas and best practices if an employer is confronted by an employee request to bring a service animal to work and potential conflicts with other employees who are allergic to or afraid of dogs.

Learning Objectives

  • You will be able to identify what is and what isn't a service animal under the ADA.
  • You will be able to discuss what questions an employer may lawfully ask to determine if an animal is a service animal.
  • You will be able to describe what an employer's rights and obligations are for a workplace service animal.
  • You will be able to identify when an employer can exclude a service animal.

This live webinar covers these hot issues

What Is a Service Animal?

  • The Department of Justice Guidance
  • Can Animals Other Than Dogs Be Service Animals?
  • What Is the Difference, If Any, Between Companion, Assistive, Therapy, Comfort or
  • Social/Therapy Animals and Service Animals?
  • Does the EEOC Define What a Service Animal is?

How May an Employer Lawfully Determine If an Animal Is a Service Animal?

  • What Questions May an Employer Ask?
  • May an Employer Demand Documentation That an Animal Is a Service Animal?
  • Must Employers Permit Employees to Train Service Animals in the Workplace?

Workplace Issues Relating to Service Animals

  • Who Must Control a Service Animal?
  • What If the Service Animal Is Not House Broken or Barks Loudly and Often?
  • Must Employers Provide a Place for a Service Animal to Relieve Itself?
  • Must Employers Provide Break Time for an Employee to Take a Service Animal to Relieve Itself?
  • The Reasonable Accommodation Process and Service Animals?

What If Other Employees Are Allergic to or Afraid of Service Animals?

  • How Does an Employer Resolve Such Conflicts?

Credit Information (Sponsored by Lorman Education Services)

  • SHRM
  • HR Certification Institute

For Detailed Credit Information page click here

Only registered attendee will receive continuing education credit.

Faculty

Frank C. Morris, Jr., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

  • Chair, employment law practice in Washington, D.C. and co-chair of the ADA and Public Accommodations Group for the national law firm of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
  • Speaker on the ADA and employment law to the judicial conferences for the federal judges of Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits
  • Adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School
  • Named to Best Lawyers in America and a Super Lawyer for Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers magazine, and Washington, D.C. and Baltimore’s Top Rated Lawyers
  • Represents and counsels employers and public accommodations nationally in employment, labor, leave and disability matters
  • Can be contacted at fmorris@ebglaw.com