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February 16, 2010
Breakfast Bulletin: Managing Communicable Diseases
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Location: Little Rock Offices
500 President Clinton Avenue
Suite 200
Little Rock, AR 72201
Contact: Kelly Davenport
501-371-9999
kdavenport@cgwg.com
Details:
Employers are legally liable for employees and others (non-employees) infected in the workplace. Additionally, chronic disease carriers such as persons with tuberculosis are protected against employment discrimination by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As an influenza pandemic begins to affect your workforce, certain protocols may need to change. Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, P.C. attorneys Amber Bagley and Elizabeth Cummings will address the following questions, plus many more:
• Should an employer send home an employee who has or is exhibiting symptoms of a communicable disease? What if the employee is not exhibiting symptoms but has been in close contact with someone with a communicable disease?
• When can an employee who has had a communicable disease or symptoms return to work and can an employer require a fitness-for-duty doctor’s note?
• May an employer “dock” an employee for time away from work for a communicable disease, if he or she has exhausted vacation/PTO?
• Is a communicable disease automatically an FMLA-covered serious health condition? Is it a “disability”?
• Could a communicable disease be covered by workers’ compensation?
• Is an employer’s knowledge that an employee has a communicable disease subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy restrictions?
• May an employer disclose an employee’s actual or probable communicable disease diagnosis to others?
• Are there any OSHA requirements when an employee is diagnosed with a communicable disease? The cost to attend is $30.
Description:
Whether your organization is small, medium, national, or international, has an internal human resource department or outsources that function, the intent of this Breakfast Bulletin is to help you effectively plan for and respond to communicable diseases and ensure that your most valuable assets, your employees, are protected.
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