Training Seminars
DBTAC-Great Lakes ADA Center
Announcing the 2008 Legal Issues Webinar Series: Employment and the ADA
The DBTAC-Great Lakes ADA Center is pleased to announce a new educational opportunity for 2008. This program will focus on employment issues and disability discrimination under the ADA.
This webinar series will utilize an on line conferencing system. The Online Conferencing System is a fully accessible integrated data and voice medium that enables users to conduct workshops over the Internet from just about any computer with a high speed network connection and web browser. Participation is enhanced with use of a personal microphone.
COST: $100 per session. Discounts are available if you register for more than one session in the series. (10% discount for 2 sessions, 15% discount for 3-4 sessions, 20% discount for 5-6 sessions).
TIME: Each session is 90 minutes in length. They will be held from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Central Time Zone (CT) on dates specified.
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN JANUARY 9, 2008 at www.ada-audio.org.
2008 LEGAL ISSUES WEBINAR SERIES: EMPLOYMENT AND THE ADA
All sessions will be hosted and moderated by Barry C. Taylor, Legal Advocacy Director at Equip for Equality, and Alan Goldstein, Senior Attorney at Equip for Equality, the Protection and Advocacy Program in Illinois, www.equipforequality.org.*
Session Schedule and Descriptions
- January 22, 2008 - Reasonable Accommodations for People with Psychiatric
Disabilities
Many employers find it challenging to understand how to effectively provide reasonable accommodations to people with psychiatric disabilities. This session will review the ADA and its regulations, EEOC guidance and recent case law decisions surrounding reasonable accommodations for people with psychiatric disabilities in the workplace and resources available to assist employers.
- March 4, 2008 - Medical Inquiries/Hiring/Confidentiality
Learn how to acquire, use and protect employee medical information to meet legitimate business needs without violating the ADA. This session will review the ADA and its regulations, EEOC guidance and recent case law decisions regarding the acquisitions, use and protection of employee medical information, along with practical tips to assist with complying with these requirements under the ADA. Specific issues include whether personality tests violate the ADA, whether a person without a disability has standing to raise an ADA violation, and how the courts have interpreted the ADA's confidentiality provisions.
- April 22, 2008 - Disability Harassment/Retaliation/Discipline
Disability harassment, retaliation and discipline are emerging workplace issues presenting unique challenges to employers. This session will review the ADA and its regulations and recent case law decisions and provide practical tips for navigating these new and complex areas of the law.
- June 3, 2008 - Qualified as related to Reasonable Accommodations such as Leave, Reassignment and Job Modifications
Are employees who need leave, reassignment or modified job duties still qualified employees with disabilities under the ADA? This session will review the ADA and its regulations, EEOC guidance, and recent case law decision that focus on how certain accommodation requests relate to employees' abilities to perform essential job functions.
- July 22, 2008 - ADA Coverage Beyond Actual Disability: Regarded As, Record of, and Association Disability
The ADA provides protections to people who may not have a current ADA defined disability. This session will review the ADA and its regulations; EEOC guidance and recent case law, as well as provide employers with information that will help them to avoid pitfalls that may be encountered when navigating this often overlooked area of the law.
- September 23, 2008 - Direct Threat/Safety in the Workplace
What does the ADA require when an employee poses a potential threat to health and safety in the workplace? This session will review the ADA and its regulations, EEOC guidance and recent case law and provide employers with information about conducting an individualized assessment and the role of reasonable accommodations to address the potential threat.
*About the Speakers:
Since 1996, Barry Taylor has been the Legal Advocacy Director at Equip for Equality, the Illinois Protection and Advocacy system. He has overseen many individual and systemic disability discrimination cases and he also oversees the agency's training project, which in its first ten years trained approximately 28,000 people with disabilities. He has also given numerous presentations on the ADA across the country to people with disabilities, employers, service providers and advocacy organizations. Mr. Taylor has been the Chairperson of the Disability Rights Consortium, Chairperson of the Legal Committee for the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, Chairperson of the Chicago Bar Association's Legal Aid Committee, and Chairperson of the Chicago Bar Association's Mental Health and Disability Law Committee. He is an Adjunct Professor at John Marshall Law School, and in 2001, Chicago Lawyer Magazine named Taylor one of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch.” Prior to coming to Equip for Equality, he was the AIDS Project Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal working to advance the civil rights for people living with HIV/AIDS. From 1988 - 1993, he was a litigation associate at the Chicago law firm of Peterson & Ross. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he also received his undergraduate degree.
Alan M. Goldstein, Senior Attorney at Equip for Equality
Alan is a Senior Attorney with Equip for Equality (EFE), the Illinois Protection and Advocacy Agency for people with disabilities. Mr. Goldstein has been practicing law for over twenty years and has specialized in the area of disability rights for more than ten years. Mr. Goldstein provides employment-related training to human resource professionals, individuals with disabilities, service providers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations utilizing his experiences as an attorney to provide practical information his training. Equip for Equality also manages the Illinois ADA Project that is funded by the DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center and National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The Illinois ADA Project provides ADA information and training to organizations and individuals across Illinois.
For more information, please contact the DBTAC - Great Lakes ADA Center www.adagreatlakes.org · E-mail: gldbtac@uic.edu · Telephone/TTY: 312-413-1407 (V/TTY) or 800-949-4232 (V/TTY) in IL, IN, MI, MN, OH or WI
The contents of these sessions were developed under award #H133A060097 from the U.S. Department of Education through the auspices of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). However the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government. The contents are solely the responsibility of the DBTAC: Great Lakes ADA Center and do not necessarily represent the official views of any of these agencies. The resource materials disseminated by the Center are intended as a guide and does not constitute legal advice. For specific legal advice, an attorney should be consulted.
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