Three lawyers' FMLA cheat codes and ADA hacks to facilitate leave administration for businesses

Along with my two special guests, Daris Freeman and Jeff Nowak, we spent an hour sharing our tips and tricks for navigating leave and accommodation requests.

Here's what we covered:
0:00 Introduction and Disclaimer
4:12 FMLA Call-Ins
16:50 FMLA Certifications
23:30 FMLA Conversations with Employees
27:45 FMLA Recertifications
33:05 "How can I help you?"
41:30 ADA Communication Issues
47:20 ADA Essential Job Functions
48:25 ADA Fitness for Duty
51:10 Using Intermittent FMLA to Establish Undue Hardship
54:09 Q&A
58:18 Wrap Up

Daris is an employment lawyer who has spent more than 20 years focused on all things absence management. Ther primarily supports Unum’s Absence Management Center, which administers FMLA, paid leave, ADA, and over 200 complementary state laws.

Jeff is also an employment lawyer whose sweet spot and passion is helping employers manage employees with medical conditions and disabilities. He authors the FMLA Insights blog (www.FMLAinsights.com), which provides practical advice for employers navigating the FMLA.

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Jeff:   / jeffnowak  

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LIVE CHAT DISCLAIMER: We try to answer questions without saying "it depends," which we all know is impossible since we're lawyers. Also, we're not creating attorney-client privilege between us. And we're not providing specific advice, legal or otherwise. (Our clients pay for actual legal advice.)