Few employers can say they have never faced challenges with employee medical leave, disability accommodation, or workplace injuries. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying family and health conditions. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (and ADA Amendments Act) requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations — including leave when appropriate — for qualified individuals with disabilities. Workers’ compensation laws require medical care and wage benefits for employees injured on the job.
 
Often, an employee’s situation will trigger one, two, or all three of these laws at the same time — such as when a workplace injury also qualifies as a serious health condition and a disability. When this happens, employers must understand how to analyze each law separately, how they interact, and how to meet all compliance requirements without risking liability.
 
This webinar has been fully updated for 2026 compliance expectations and best practices to help HR and leadership proactively manage complex leave and accommodation situations with confidence.

In this 2026 edition of the webinar you will learn how to:

• Distinguish between a “serious health condition” under the FMLA and a “qualified individual with a disability” under the ADA/ADAAA.
• Understand when and how workers’ compensation leave may run concurrently with FMLA leave.
• Use medical inquiry and certification processes correctly under each law.
• Identify notification requirements under FMLA and ADA/ADAAA.
• Recognize situations where FMLA leave, ADA accommodation, and workers’ comp overlap.
• Manage intermittent or reduced-schedule leave requests.
• Handle termination or job restoration legally after leave under one or more laws.
• Apply documentation, interactive process, and reinstatement guidelines.
• Gain practical best practices for compliance in 2026.

These three seemingly separate bodies of law — FMLA, ADA/ADAAA, and Workers’ Compensation — often intersect in complex ways. Many employers struggle with questions such as:

• What qualifies as FMLA leave vs ADA reasonable accommodation vs workers’ compensation benefits?
• When must employers continue health benefits? 
• Can you require fitness-for-duty or medical certifications, and how?
• How do multi-state compliance requirements affect your policies?
• Failure to manage these laws correctly can result in costly fines, discrimination claims, and other legal exposure. This webinar provides the tools and resources you need to navigate overlapping leave laws, reduce compliance risks, and protect your organization under current 2026 legal interpretations and workplace practices.

This program is ideal for professionals responsible for employment compliance, leave administration, and workforce management, including:

• Business Owners;
• H.R. Managers and Directors;
• H.R. Generalists;
• Leave Administrators;
• Benefits Administrators;
• CEO’s;
• Senior Managers;
• Front-Line and Middle Managers.
• Risk & Benefits Specialists
• Small Business Employers

During the Q&A session following the live event, ask a question and get a direct response from our expert speaker.

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Janette Levey Frisch

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Janette S. Levey, “The Employer’s Lawyer” has over 20 years of legal experience, more than 10 of which she has spent in Employment Law. It was during her tenure as sole in-house counsel for a mid-size staffing company headquartered in Central New Jersey, with operations all over the continental US, that she truly developed her passion for Employment Law.

Janette operates under this core belief: It is possible, and it is in an employer’s best interest, to proactively solve workforce challenges before they become problems, before they result in lawsuits or steep fines caused by government audits.

Janette works with employers on most employment law issues, to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. Janette authors the firm’s weekly blog, where you can read each week, in plain English (not legalese) about issues impacting employers today. Janette has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.

Janette has served on the Workplace Violence Prevention Institute, a multidisciplinary task force dedicated to providing proactive, holistic solutions to employers serious about promoting workplace safety and preventing workplace violence.

Janette currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Child and Family Resources of Morris County, New Jersey.

Janette has also spoken and trained on topics, such as Criminal Background Checks in the Hiring Process, Joint Employment, Severance Arrangements, Addressing and Preventing Employee Leave Abuse, Pre-Employment Screening among many, many others.

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