ADA Accommodations, Working Remotely & Job Performance: How to Manage All of These Effectively

ADA Accommodations, Working Remotely & Job Performance: How to Manage All of These Effectively
James M. Paul, SHRM-SCP, Shareholder, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

In this interactive session, we will walk through a “real life” scenario where an employee presents both a need for an accommodation under the ADA and simultaneously has performance issues that call for correction. When is it appropriate to implement a disability accommodation? When is it acceptable to issue discipline or corrective measures despite an employee’s disability? Are there circumstances where an accommodation is “unreasonable” or an “undue burden”?  And, now that COVID-19 has changed our personal and work lives permanently, working remotely is both an exciting opportunity and a multi-faceted challenge and liability risk.  How should managers and HR document everything along the way? Attendees will leave this session with a fresh perspective on how to balance and promote the rights of people with disabilities in the workplace and those working remotely (whether disabled or not), how to manage performance issues, and how to train managers on ADA and performance management best practices. 
 
Jim has extensive trial and appellate experience with handling labor and employment law litigation in federal and state courts, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, Department of Justice, Missouri Commission on Human Rights, Illinois Department of Human Rights, and several other federal and state agencies. He was named the “Best Lawyers^® St. Louis Litigation – Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year” in 2016, holds the Society for Human Resources Management’s “SHRM-SCP” certification, and regularly advises employers on all labor and human resource management issues in an effort to prevent or resolve employee issues before they escalate into legal disputes. As Co-Chair of the firm’s Disability Access practice group, Jim advises clients regarding legal requirements for accommodating disabled individuals and defends Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilitation Act lawsuits nationally.
 
Prior to his private practice of law, Jim served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ray Price, Jr. of the Missouri Supreme Court and then as a Missouri Assistant Attorney General. As Assistant Attorney General, he represented the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Missouri Division of Labor Standards, and the Missouri Commission on Human Rights by enforcing state discrimination and wage and hour laws. He also worked in Washington, D.C. on legislative issues for the late Missouri Governor Carnahan and has taught Trial Advocacy at Saint Louis University as an Adjunct Professor.

Speaker:  James (Jim) M. Paul, SHRM-SCP | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

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