Accommodation Requests - Substance Abuse - Contagious Infections

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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.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

• How to legally respond to requests for accommodations, religion & disability
• How to enforce your substance abuse policy while meeting all legal requirements
• How to respond to off-site and on-site disclosures of potentially contagious infections

Major Subjects

• Accommodation requests - religious practices
  Accommodation requests - disabilities
  Substance Abuse - constructive confrontation
  Substance Abuse - confrontation in obvious impairment situations
  Substance Abuse - duty to accommodate as a disability
  Disclosures of potentially contagious infections