Good judgment works well in handling most employee relations matters. However, there are special situations where legal requirements dictate specific handling to avoid significant personal and employer liability. This course provides practical knowledge and scripts for responding to requests for accommodations regarding religious practices or disabilities, confronting employees in substance abuse situations, and handling disclosures of contagious infections so that individual is properly helped, and the health of your workforce is protected.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to legally respond to requests for accommodations, religion & disability.
- Understand how to enforce your substance abuse policy while meeting all legal requirements.
- Identify ways to respond to off-site and on-site disclosures of potentially contagious infections.
Major Topics
- Accommodation requests
- religious practices
- Accommodation requests
- disabilities
- Substance Abuse
- constructive confrontation
- Substance Abuse
- duty to accommodate as a disability
- Disclosures of potentially contagious infections
