From Policy to Practice: Handling FMLA, ADA & Workers’ Comp in 2026

Course overview:

As workforce dynamics evolve, compliance with the FMLA and ADA remains a critical and ongoing challenge.

Join us for a 90-minute session where Janette Levey, an experienced employment law attorney, will break down the latest regulatory updates, legal risks, and real-world strategies for navigating leave management and accommodations in 2026.

Whether you’re an HR leader, legal counsel, or compliance specialist, this webinar will equip you with the insights and strategies needed to stay ahead in today’s high-stakes workplace environment.

Areas covered:

#1. New trends and legal shifts impacting FMLA and ADA compliance

#2. The Intersection of leave laws with remote and hybrid work policies

#3. Common compliance pitfalls and how to avoid costly missteps

#4. Best practices for handling complex accommodations and leave requests

• Handling Friday–Monday absence and other leave patterns
• FMLA scenarios for common law marriage, same-sex spouses, in loco parentis, shared leave limits, etc.
• FMLA documentation and record retention compliance
• Scenarios resulting in employee termination
• and more...

#5. What’s ahead in 2026 — legislation, court rulings, and policy changes.

Why should you attend?

Figuring out how to navigate the FMLA can be challenging in itself. So, when ADA or Workers’ Compensation is involved too, the complications can make most HR professionals sweat.

Sometimes, the most fascinating or puzzling FMLA scenarios blend several legal concepts into one situation - marital status laws, spousal limits, parental definitions, jurisdictional differences, etc. — that HR professionals must pause and look beyond surface assumptions to unpack.

Also, there are situations when an FMLA-eligible employee may also be protected under the ADA/ADAAA, and therefore qualify for an extended leave of absence - beyond the FMLA's 12-week maximum. If that's not enough, when you have employees who are eligible for time off from work under workers' compensation laws, the potential for overlap, not to mention administrative challenges and the impact on your company’s bottom-line seems to increase exponentially.

This webinar will help participants unpack this puzzle of often overlapping employee leave laws. It will help you alleviate concerns about staying in compliance, the administrative challenges, employee leave abuse scenarios, and avoid any negative impact to your org's bottom line.

Who will benefit:

• HR Professionals (all levels)
• Legal counsel
• Employee relations
• Small business owners
• CEOs, CPOs
• Law firms

About the instructor:

Janette S Levey, “The Employer’s Lawyer” has over 20 years of legal experience, more than 10 of which she has spent in Employment Law. It was during her tenure as sole in-house counsel for a mid-size staffing company headquartered in Central New Jersey, with operations all over the continental US, that she truly developed her passion for Employment Law.

Janette operates under this core belief: It is possible, and it is in an employer’s best interest, to proactively solve workforce challenges before they become problems, before they result in lawsuits or steep fines caused by government audits.

Janette works with employers on most employment law issues, to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. Janette authors the firm’s weekly blog, where you can read each week, in plain English (not legalese) about issues impacting employers today. Janette has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.

Janette is a contributing author to the legal treatise, Employment Contracts and Agreements: A Guide for Corporate Counsel, published by LexisNexis in 2024.

Janette currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Child and Family Resources of Morris County, New Jersey.

Refund policy:

Attendees may cancel up to 48 hours before the webinar start time and the refund will be processed within two working days.

We will process/provide a refund if the webinar is canceled. Refunds will not be given to participants who do not show up for the webinar. On-demand recordings can be requested in exchange. Webinars may be canceled due to a lack of enrolment or unavoidable factors. Attendees will be notified 24 hours in advance if a cancellation occurs. Substitutions can happen anytime.

If the content covered in the webinar is unsatisfactory then a 100% refund will be issued; no questions will be asked.

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