Learning About the Employee Free Choice Act
Join us to hear from Michael Hausknecht, partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, about how your workplace could be affected by the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, which will amend the National Labor Relations Act to alter substantially the process by which unions come to represent employees.
Date: Jan.9
Time: 8 - 9 a.m.
Location: Rochester Business Alliance
Cost: None
Register Now: Click here

---

The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 - What it Means for Your Business
Peter Jones, Partner, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, will look at how changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act, which take effect Jan. 1, expand the range of impairments defined as disability and could trigger the anti-discrimination and reasonable accommodation provisions of the ADA. Topics covered include:

• What constitutes "substantial limitation in the performance of a major life activity" post ADAAA?
• How does the ADAAA broaden the definition of "major life activities" and what does that mean for employers?
• Mitigating measures can no longer be considered in determining whether someone is in fact disabled under the ADA.  What does this mean for employers' reasonable accommodation obligations, both where mitigating measures control the impairment well, and where mitigating measures do not control the impairment?
• When is an individual with episodic impairments entitled to protection under the amendments?
• How does the broader definition of "regarded as" disabled impact employment decisions and how can employers avoid liability for "regarded as" claims?
• How do the new ADAAA provisions interact with the New York Human Rights Law?

Date: Jan.30
Time: 8 - 9 a.m.
Location: Rochester Business Alliance
Cost: None
Register Now: Click here