FMLA, ADA, USERRA, Workers Compensation, and HIPAA: Learn How These Laws Work Together

Managing one leave law is hard enough. Handling several at once is harder, especially as court decisions and federal rules require employers to consider multiple types of leave or accommodation when an employee asks for one.

This 60-minute webinar separates the laws and explains what each requires: the FMLA, ADA, USERRA, workers' compensation, unemployment compensation and HIPAA, along with relevant case law.

It then cross-references the laws to show how they interact, and gives HR a simple, practical toolbox for working out how each one applies alongside the others so compliance is maintained.

• Explain the core requirements of the FMLA, ADA and USERRA
• Describe how workers' compensation and unemployment compensation relate to leave
• Apply HIPAA when handling leave information
• Cross-reference the laws to see how they interact
• Use practical tools to manage overlapping leave and accommodation requests

• FMLA
• ADA
• USERRA
• Workers' compensation
• Unemployment compensation
• HIPAA
• Relevant case law
• How the laws interact and practical tools for managing them together

Leave law compliance is complicated, and overlapping obligations make mistakes more likely. This session gives you a clear, practical way to sort out which laws apply to a request and how they fit together.

It is especially useful for HR professionals who are fairly new to the field and handle leave or accommodation requests.

• Human Resources

Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With fifteen years of experience, Deirdre focuses her practice on labor and employment law, social media and technology law, HIPAA, and business law. Specific areas of her employment law practice include discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, business contracts, unemployment compensation, LGBT issues, labor disputes, FMLA, military leave, social media litigation, information privacy and technology, agency compliance, and medical record privacy.  

Her clients include companies, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals. Her work includes consultative and legal services, from outsourced HR and social media services to hearings, litigation, and appellate work. She also regularly provides training and education for companies and individuals. She is licensed to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and she also has been admitted as an expert witness in social media and networking. 

Deirdre is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions: she was selected as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Business Journal, she received the Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association, she received a grant from the Public Justice Foundation for her pro bono work on HIV/AIDS, and she was recently nominated as one of the top twenty-five women of influence in the Lehigh Valley. 

Aside from the practice of law, she serves as the President and Diversity Chair for Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Lehigh Valley. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor at DeSales University in the MBA Program in both the HR and Healthcare Concentrations. She has earned her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law, a distinguished master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland, and a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University.