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July 09, 2007
Good Intentions Gone Awry: What Every Employer Should Know About the Interaction of the ADA and FMLA
Peter Petesch, managing partner for the Washington, D.C. office of the management-side labor law firm Ford & Harrison LLP will present the Web cast on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 3:00pm Eastern; 2:00pm Central; 1:00pm Mountain; 12:00pm Pacific; 11:00am Alaska; 9:00am Hawaii.
This presentation will provide a broad overview of both the ADA and the FMLA while focusing on where they overlap and where they differ. Learn how to navigate both acts with confidence so as to better understand employees’ rights and employers’ responsibilities.
Peter Petesch, managing partner for the Washington, D.C. office of the management-side labor law firm Ford & Harrison LLP, represents a wide variety of businesses in labor and employment matters. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, federal appellate courts nationwide, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He counsels employers on problem-solving and employment policy matters, litigates employment and labor cases, and negotiates collective bargaining agreements. He teaches employment law to both human resource professionals and attorneys in continuing legal education courses. He was counsel for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on SHRM’s amicus briefs in four landmark Supreme Court ADA cases: Sutton v. United Air Lines, Murphy v. United Parcel Service, US Airways v. Barnett, and Chevron USA, Inc. v. Echazabal. He also appeared on behalf of SHRM as amicus curiae in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing, Inc., another employment case. He received a 1997 National Business and Labor Award for Leadership on HIV/AIDS from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and served as Co-Chair to the Business Partners Board for the CDC’s Business Responds to AIDS program.
He served on the national SHRM Ethics Panel, and also served on the SHRM Code Integration Team, working on the development and refinement of the Code of Ethical and Professional Standards in Human Resource Management. He now serves on the SHRM Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Mr. Petesch has been a presenter at several SHRM national and regional conferences on a variety of ADA and other employment law issues. He has published numerous articles on ADA and other employment issues in HR Magazine, Mosaics, and HR Legal Report, and often appeared on SHRM’s HR Newsscan. Mr. Petesch has been interviewed and published on employment law issues on PBS, ABC, CNBC, CNN, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, HR Magazine, HR News, BNA Daily Labor Report, Money, Workforce, and the business sections of newspapers nationwide. He is also on the editorial advisory board for Thompson Publications’ ADA Compliance Guide and Leave & Disability Coordination Handbook.
He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment lawyers in the 2007 edition, and is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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This Web cast is supported through the DBTAC - Southwest ADA Center, a project of ILRU. Southwest ADA Center is one of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to provide training, technical assistance and materials dissemination on the ADA and other disability-related laws. NIDRR is part of the U.S. Department of Education.
The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.
Posted by Nancy at July 9, 2007 05:37 PM