Event Details

Description of Program:

Has your organization implemented policies and administrative procedures to comply with the Family & Medical Leave Act?  Are managers and supervisors in your organization properly responding to requests for leaves under the Act?  Understanding the interaction with Workers’ Compensation and Americans with Disabilities Act presents additional challenges - where does one begin and the other leave off?

This program will explore:

Leave requirements for employees who qualify for family and/or medical leaves.

The reinstatement rights of employees following leaves under FMLA/ADA.

How to analyze a FMLA/ADA request for time off.

Answers to unusual/complex FMLA/ADA questions.

Speaker

Aaron is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried a variety of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims under federal and state law. He also has extensive traditional labor law experience, including collective bargaining, union campaigns, and labor arbitrations. As a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Aaron provides around-the-clock, proactive, and common sense counseling and guidance to employers on every aspect of the employer-employee relationship. As a highly acclaimed and recognized speaker, teacher, and trainer, he regularly provides high-intensity, high-content seminars and classes for human resources professionals and managers.

Recent Experience*

•Defended national staffing company in a sex harassment and retaliation case.

•Provided union-free training for 250 managers for a prominent health care company.

•Assisted multi-national corporation with protecting confidential and proprietary information through complex trade secrets litigation.

•Represented public-sector employer in a unique sex harassment, retaliation, and whistle-blower case.

•Defended large federal contractor in a religious discrimination/failure to accommodate case.

Recent Publications

•"You're Fired For Poor Performance - Despite What Those Evaluations Say," HR Florida Review, Fall 2008

Honors and Awards

•The Best Lawyers in America – Labor and Employment Law

•Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business

•"Florida's Legal Elite" by Florida Trend magazine

•"Orlando's Best Lawyers" by Orlando Magazine

•"Best of the Bar" by the Orlando Business Journal

•"Best Lawyer" by Florida Monthly magazine

•"Florida Super Lawyers" by Super Lawyers magazine

•AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

*Per Florida Bar rules, information on litigation and other legal successes has not been disclosed but is available upon request.