The Reason Your Interactive Processes are Painful and How to Fix This!
12/13/23 at 9:00 AM to 12/13/23 at 10:30 AM
Bay Cities Joint Powers Insurance Authority (BCJPIA) is sponsoring a regional training workshop on Interactive Processes. This workshop is intended for anyone involved in the Interactive Process, Risk Managers, Human Resources, Supervisors, and Managers.
Course Description
It’s not uncommon for discussions between employees and employers to get emotionally charged when it comes to the topic of their disability and reasonable accommodations. Fact collecting will be by far the most important step in your ADA/FEHA interactive processes. Simply put, good data = good decisions.
While collecting data and having parties agree on essential functions is vital, every human resource and risk manager can tell you getting clear medical information from health care providers is more difficult. From vague medical reports to accommodation recommendations and unclear restrictions such as “no heavy lifting or prolonged standing,” Rachel will walk attendees through how clear medical data can save your organization in time and money.
Leave understanding how to write better medical questionnaires to get the information you need to make sound reasonable accommodation decisions.
Speaker: Rachel Shaw
Rachel Shaw is the President and Principal Consultant of Shaw HR Consulting, Incorporated. With more than 20 years of executive-level Human Resources experience, Rachel is recognized nationwide as a leader in helping public and private sector employers manage their most challenging disability-related personnel issues. Rachel and her team provide comprehensive solutions to employers on how to successfully manage the interconnected roles of human resources, workers’ compensation and disability compliance to successfully reduce litigation, the costs of claims and improve employee-employer relations throughout the process.
Rachel is known nationally as the authority on how to implement and manage the ADA Disability Interactive Process for candidates and employees. Her trainings and seminars are highly anticipated by Human Resource and Risk Management professionals as informative, dynamic and packed with real-life practical solutions. She is author of the industry best-selling and award-winning book, “The Disabled Workforce: What the ADA Never Anticipated.”