In-the-Trenches: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Federal Medical Leaves and Accommodations Workshop Day Two
Day Two of our In-the-Trenches workshop is dedicated to helping Vocational Rehabilitation consultants and HR professionals work together effectively in the ADA accommodation process. This second day of the workshop is built around our ADA Accommodation Compliance Blueprint™, which provides the structure, tools, and strategies needed to manage Good Faith Interactive Meetings, evaluate undue hardships, and design accommodations that work for both the employee and the organization.
Join us on November 7th, 2025 in Chicago, IL or via Zoom for a deep dive of our ADA Accommodation Compliance Blueprint™!
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Why Should You Attend?
- Define Your Role in ADA Compliance: Learn where Voc Rehab fits in the accommodation process, and how you can work alongside HR to strengthen compliance and outcomes.
- Master the Good Faith Interactive Meeting (GFIM): Understand how to prepare, participate, and document GFIMs in a way that supports both the employee and employer.
- Undue Hardship & Imminent Harm: Learn to analyze when accommodations cross the line into unreasonable or unsafe territory and how to communicate this effectively.
- Light Duty, Modified Duty, and Reduced Schedules: Understand when these accommodations may be reasonable under ADA, how they differ from Workers’ Compensation practices, and your role in guiding employers through them.
- Collaboration in Action: Develop the skills to translate medical restrictions into workplace accommodations that make sense and hold up under scrutiny.
Who Should Attend Day 2 Only?
- Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants seeking to expand into workplace ADA support and strengthen their consulting expertise.
- HR Professionals who want to work more effectively with Voc Rehab experts in the accommodation process.
- Consultants & Advocates ready to learn a clear, replicable system for ADA compliance.
Let an HR pro with over 30 years of experience teach you a simple, powerful and easy to use methodology and workflow to control, not just manage, Medical Leaves and Accommodations in your organization with or without a 3rd party administrator!
Want to hear from past attendees? Watch the videos below!
Learn directly from Beth De Lima, MBA, SPHR-CA, SHRM-SCP. Beth is a nationally recognized Medical Leave and Accommodation compliance HR expert. She has been ‘in the trenches’ helping companies implement these regulations and providing expert testimony for litigation since the regulations were originally enacted over 30 years ago.
As a result of the large number of Expert Testimony cases she has been retained on, she has a unique and very powerful window into the errors organizations make that get them slapped with lawsuits they can't win. Come learn from her decades of experience! Remember, this training was created by an HR Pro, for HR Pros!
“Beth was a great speaker and has a wealth of knowledge and is highly valued for her insight. She is very friendly and approachable. I would like to attend her future trainings."
Regional Director of Human Resources
Five Star Quality Care