Event Details

Title:  Managing Mental Illness at Work

Presenter: Kara Craig is an employment attorney at Vigilant Law Group. She has practiced law for over 25 years and lives in Portland.

Summary: Mental illness is certainly not a new issue, but it’s one that’s been receiving more and more attention in recent years, in part because our society is more willing to recognize it, own it, and talk about it. Employees newly entering the workforce aren’t afraid to talk about their mental health and exercise their right to request an accommodation. Employees are still suffering from the after-effects of the pandemic; requests for mental health leave and disability accommodations have skyrocketed since 2020. The goal of this presentation is to help employers understand the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and give you some tools to appropriately respond to mental illness issues in the workplace while still holding employees accountable.

Learning objectives:

• Understand an employer’s basic obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including the duty to provide a reasonable accommodation.
• Identify the signs of potential mental health issues happening at work.
• Know how to ask the right questions and get the key information needed to respond appropriately to notice of the need for accommodation.
• Use a step-by-step procedure to engage in the interactive process and conduct a reasonable accommodation analysis.
• Document the right details and maintain confidentiality.
• Continue to hold employees accountable for performance and behavior expectations.

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