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Substance Abuse and the ADA/ADAAA
Speaker :
Melissa Fleischer, Esq
About The Event
Learn how to best manage employees with substance abuse issues and what you can legally do to ensure compliance with the ADA/ADAAA. These employees can have absenteeism and attendance problems as well as performance issues. Learn what you can do regarding these issues while staying within the law. This webinar will provide some top tips for methods your managers can use to deal with these issues.
Learning Objectives
In this 90 minute webinar presented by attorney Melissa Fleischer, you will learn:
- Best practices for handling workplace substance abuse issues in compliance with the ADA/ADAAA
- Tips to avoid discrimination claims by employee’s with substance abuse problems
- Understand federal antidiscrimination law and how to comply for disabled workers with substance abuse problems.
- What substance abuse users are protected by the ADA
- How to distinguish between a current drug addict and a recovering drug addict and the effect of that distinction on who is protected by the ADA
- Best practices for handling Opioid Abuse in the Workplace
- What to avoid when attempting to apply performance standards to disabled employees with substance abuse issues
- Tips to effectively handle worker drug and alcohol abuse while staying within the law
- Resources available in your organization for managing substance abuse issues.
Who Should Attend
- HR Professionals
- In-House Counsel
- Managers
- Business Owners
- Office Managers
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Melissa Fleischer, Esq
Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.
Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.
Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.