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Reasonable Accommodation Training for Human Resource and Workers’ Comp Case Management Professionals: June 18

9:00 am - 4:30 pm MDT, June 18, 2018   |   Organized by: Reasonable Accommodation, LLC

Description

Date/Time: Monday, June 18th, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Denver, Colorado

Reasonable Accommodation Training Overview

Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act gives employers essential tools for hiring and retaining safe and productive team members but also creates new responsibilities for workers’ compensation case managers. This powerful workshop raises and answers the questions encountered in the daily blend of on-boarding, termination, and return-to-work situations. Review of current case studies and recent federal court settlements lead off and conclude the training.

Course Content

  • ADA Title 1 is a “process” law – follow the process!

  • ADA Title 1 does not consider the source of impairment (accident, on-the-job injury, genetic)

  • What is a reasonable accommodation?

  • Overview of the interactive process

  • The key to navigating the process: focus on hiring or retaining a safe, qualified individual

  • Who and what triggers the process?

    • Frontline supervisor

    • Physician

    • Union representative

    • Co-worker

    • Designated disability or reasonable accommodation manager

  • Managing a successful initial interview

  • Implementing a request for medical documentation

    • Find the nexus of disability, medical restriction, essential functions and reasonable accommodation

    • If a medical restriction does not connect to a physical demand of the job, do I have to accommodate the individual?

  • Tools to manage identification of a safe and effective accommodation

  • Undue Hardship

  • The trial period concept

  • Long-term follow-up — changes in the job or the worker

  • Direct Threat

  • Responding to an official employment discrimination inquiry

    • Failure to accommodate

    • Non-compliance with the process




Roy Matheson

Roy Matheson, ADAC has a 30-year background in occupational rehabilitation and ergonomic evaluation training and professional certification. His initial exposure to employment testing began at the Employment and Rehabilitation Institute of California (ERIC) in 1983. The rehabilitation and work evaluation philosophies at the heart of the medical examination section of ADA Title I originated at ERIC under its founder, Dr. Leonard Matheson.

Work tolerance screening, work capacity evaluation (now known as ‘functional capacity evaluation’), and work hardening were introduced as new rehabilitation services at ERIC clinic. Roy Matheson’s contribution to the growth of employment testing under the Matheson philosophy was the development of training programs, software, and equipment used by therapists around the globe.

In 2012, the effect of federal court cases involving employment testing served as a call to action for Roy Matheson. In the ensuing years, he transitioned to what is now Reasonable Accommodation, LLC, and reasonable accommodation.com. His practice focuses on advising and training employers, government agencies, therapists, and legal counsel of the mechanics of medical examination and reasonable accommodation under ADA Title I.

Roy has presented as a keynote speaker, panelist, trainer, or workshop instructor at more than 400 public and private educational events, management training programs, and national conferences. His audience includes managers and staff of federal, state, county, and municipal government entities as well as the full spectrum of corporate entities across the United States, Canada, and six other countries. Roy’s body of work includes hundreds of online webinars and blogs related to Title I of the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act.

His consulting and guidance assignments address legal compliance issues raised under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act. These issues include aspects of employment testing, essential function job analysis, and reasonable accommodation program start-up and management. Roy sees himself as a trusted adviser in demanding situations requiring clear, well-thought-out guidance within the environment of employment and disability-related civil rights law.

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