The legal test for the duty to accommodate is a constant. But the nuances and the challenges of fulfilling that duty in relation to specific protected personal characteristics is constantly evolving. It’s crucial that senior managers and human resource leaders keep pace with this evolution to ensure the employers’ legal obligations are met.
Learning Objectives
• Family Status. The scope of “family status” protection; the legal test for family status discrimination; and the information employers are entitled to require from employees.
• Mental Disability. The scope of “mental disability” protection, including what does and doesn’t amount to a protected mental disability and the treatment of neurodiversity; the role of medical information; the impact on performance management; and circumstances that amount to undue hardship.
• Gender Diversity. The scope of the protection of gender diverse employees, including pronoun use; the terminology; key workplace policies and restroom rules; and employers’ role in workplace communications.
Date: November 6, 2024; 9 am - noon
Register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e97a5a07-ade6-4138-af27-c343fc2bf746@c86b09eb-7ad7-4aa2-9d82-98a45bd8ec19