Religion in the Workplace Tuesday July 24, 2018

Coping with an Employee's Mental Illness:
Relevant Laws and Best Practices

Wednesday October 24, 2018
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm ET
90 minutes

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Special Feature: If you register for this webinar and cannot attend, you will be able to access a one-time instant replay without charge for up to 90 days after the date of the webinar.

Bonus for Each Registrant: The webinar speaker will answer one written question that you may submit by email within one week after the webinar

Description

Some illnesses or injuries at work are easy to spot: the broken leg, the hacking cough, the twisted knee -- easy to see and comparatively easy to address. Mental illness, not so much. From depression to addiction to bi-polar disorder to PTSD, employers face huge hurdles when assessing and addressing mental illness in the workplace. Mental illness, in and of itself, is complicated: often invisible, it is hard to comprehend, awkward to discuss, and nearly impossible to know whether it is organic, caused by work or home, rooted to addiction, physiological or biological in nature, or related to medication. Now, add to the confusion a variety of federal and state law requirements for employers. Add in abuse by employees who feign illness. Add in jury verdicts of hundreds of thousands of dollars in individual lawsuits.... the issues continue to mount. In sum, dealing with workplace mental illness can challenge the sanity of even the most well-meaning, generous, and responsible employer.

This program offers employers familiarity with and a game plan for managing these issues.

Agenda

Review of common types of mental disorders
Discussion of the governing laws, including the ADA, FMLA, HIPAA, USERRA, Title VII, workers compensation, and privacy laws.
Exploration of some of the conflicts that can arise between these laws as they relate to mental illness
Best practices in:

Evaluating suspected illnesses
Managing employees with mental illness
Complying with the law or laws that relate to typical situations in the workplace
Preparing against possible litigation
Examination of the hot topics currently affecting mental disorders at the workplace

Faculty

Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With over 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.

Continuing Education Information

Approved Provider

Continuing HRCI Credit Information
This program has been pre-approved for 1.5 hours of General recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. Use of the seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

SHRM Recertification Provider

Continuing SHRM Credit
Park Avenue Presentations is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org

Continuing Legal Education Credit

This webinar has been approved in the following states for continuing legal education credit by The Marino Legal Academy:

California: 1.5 credit hours
The Marino Institute for Continuing Legal Education is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 credit hours of participatory CLE credit.

New Jersey: 1.5 credit hours
This webinar has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 CLE credit hours.

New York: 1.5 areas of professional practice credit hours
This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for veteran attorneys for 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.25 credit hours may be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice.

Pennsylvania: 1.5 credit hours

This Distance Learning program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.

To receive CLE credit for this webinar in those states, please request such credit by writing to info@parkavenuepresentations.com. Your request will be forwarded to The Marino Legal Academy for processing.

CLE credit for this webinar may also be awarded in a number of other jurisdictions. For more information, please contact a Marino Legal Academy legal education consultant at (212) 249-3779, x104.

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