Duty to Accommodate in the Workplace Webinar: When Work and Health Intersect
The Duty to Accommodate in the Workplace Webinar offers essential guidance on how employees, employers, and healthcare providers can work together to support workers with health challenges. Understanding this duty is vital for creating inclusive work environments and ensuring accommodations meet individual needs.
Legal Foundations of the Duty to Accommodate
This webinar explains the legal framework requiring employers to remove workplace barriers unless doing so causes undue hardship. It ensures equal opportunities for employees with disabilities or health conditions.
Communicating Functional Limitations
Clear communication of functional limitations is a key focus. Employees learn how to share relevant information effectively without disclosing sensitive medical details.
Unique Challenges of Migraine and Headache Disorders
The webinar also covers the unique challenges faced by people living with migraine and headache disorders and ways workplaces can accommodate these needs.
Roles and Responsibilities
Employers, employees, and healthcare providers each have distinct roles in the accommodation process, which are outlined clearly during the webinar.
Promising Practices
Examples of effective accommodations, such as telework and ergonomic adjustments, are shared to help organizations adopt best practices.
