Stopping Your Leave Abusers
Deirdre Kamber Todd is the Partner with the Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law-firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her areas of practice include business and employment law, antidiscrimination laws, LGBTQIA issues, medical marijuana, contracts, healthcare, and HIPAA. With numerous accolades for her work as an employment lawyer and litigator, Deirdre has been quoted or appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, SHRM National, Business Insurance Weekly, and PBS.
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In order to protect against leave abuse, employers must understand the in’s and out’s of each type of statutory leave. They must know the types of leave available and under what conditions. Their policies and procedures must be integrated and work seamlessly. Lastly, they must take a hard stand against an employee seeking to abuse their leave opportunities.
This program will give you a step-by-step guide to assessing the authenticity of the leave. Understanding your obligations and rights, and choosing the right times and terms for challenging a leave abuser.
Areas Covered
- Each of federal laws providing leave, including:
- ADA
- FMLA
- USERRA
- WC
- NDAA - Each policy and procedure needed to address leave abusers, including:
- Each of the federal laws above
- General Sick Leave policies and procedures
- PTO policies and procedures
- Call-in policies and procedures
- HIPAA policies and procedures
- Discipline policies and procedures, and - Caselaw relating to leave abusers, employer rights, and the parties’ responsibilities
- We then will create a step-by-step process for addressing and effectively and legally resolving suspected leave abusers
Course Level - Intermediate
Who Should Attend
All human resource experts, generalists, and employees with human resource obligations
Why Should You Attend
Employee disengagement has led to an astronomic rise in employees’ abuse of their leave. From SMFS (the “Summer Monday-Friday Sickness”) to “Bridge Syndrome” (employees use their alleged illness to bridge two other types of leave to create a continuous leave period), the opportunities for leave abuse are wide and the job protections are in place unless you can prove the abuse. Proving the abuse requires understanding the laws, applying the policies and procedures properly, taking a legal stand against the abuse, and avoiding the confusion of the “Bermuda Triangle” of statutory leaves.
Topic Background
With quiet quitting and employee disengagement at an all-time high, a record number of employees are abusing their leave rights on a regular basis. Well beyond the standard “vacation leave” abuse, many of these employees understand how to take their leave under statutory job protection laws such as the FMLA, ADA, USERRA, Workers’ Compensation, and others.
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$200.00
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