Perhaps the most difficult law to understand and ensure legal compliance with is the ADA and the ADAAA. Moreover, the EEOC has issued extensive regulations to ensure legal compliance.

This CLE program will ensure that you understand the legal ins and outs of this law, how to know what constitutes a disability within the meaning of the ADA and how to recognize when an employee has requested a reasonable accommodation.

This CLE will provide the answers to your most difficult ADA questions such as whether working remotely constitutes a reasonable accommodation under the ADA, what is the meaning of undue burden and how can an employer demonstrate that an accommodation is an undue burden and how do employers navigate the interactive process properly.

What You Will Learn:

• Understanding the three definitions of disability under the ADA • How did the ADAAA change legal requirements under the ADA • Learn how the ADAAA de facto overruled an important Supreme Court decision • Understand the changes the ADAAA made in the "regarded as disabled" prong of the ADA • Understanding how an employee requests a reasonable accommodation under the ADA triggering the interactive process • Learn how to engage in the interactive process to ensure legal compliance • Understand other changes the ADAAA made and the EEOC regulations on these changes • And much more....

*This course qualifies as a Transitional course and can be taken by both Experienced and Newly Admitted attorneys in NY.