Mental Illness and the ADA

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Benefits

Many employers are at a loss on how to respond to an employee with a mental disability. Indeed, they sometimes do not learn of the disability until the employee tells a co-worker who then communicates to management that he is concerned about working with an unstable co-worker and demands that the employer provide assurance that the co-worker is safe. Furthermore, mentally disabled employees may request unique forms of accommodation that the employer is unsure whether they must grant and are unsure what medical information they can require the employee to provide concerning the disability.

This teleconference helps you determine whether your company may make medical inquiries to determine whether the employee can be terminated for disability-related misconduct, recognize when the employee truly has a disability, understand the types of accommodation that may be required and those that are not, when and what types of medical inquires and examinations may be required, and determine whether the employee is a direct threat. An employer's failure to recognize its obligations to the mentally disabled employee and what it is required to do to accommodate such employees, if necessary, as well as the circumstances under which it can terminate the employee will prevent disability claims and place the company in a much better position to defend the claim if one is made.

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