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    Making It Work: Managing Your Health Condition Through ADA Workplace Accommodations
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    Making It Work: Managing Your Health Condition Through ADA Workplace Accommodations
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    Making It Work: Managing Your Health Condition Through ADA Workplace Accommodations

    By Sheryl Ellis

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    Are you worried about returning to work because you are at a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus? Are you afraid to tell your employer about your health concerns for fear of losing your job? Many people with health conditions are afraid to go to work, but afraid to tell their employer why.Making It Work is an easy to understand guide that can help you understand how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to your specific situation and how to ask for the help you need at work. Many people are unaware that the workplace barriers and limitations they are experiencing at work due to their health condition are covered under the ADA. Sheryl Ellis is an ADA Mediator with over twenty years of experience in Human Resources. She has successfully helped many employees and employers navigate the complexities of the ADA in employment. She is uniquely qualified as a twenty year HR professional and an individual with a health condition.Making It Work is an easy-to-understand guide to workplace accommodations under the ADA that includes a FREE Employee Workbook. It will help you:Understand how the ADA now covers a broad range of people with health conditions and disabilitiesLearn how the ADA can protect you from job discrimination and enable you to keep your job Learn how to research, prepare, request, and negotiate a reasonable accommodation that will enable you to overcome limitations and barriers at workLearn about special cases in which the ADA applies such as:How to request a service animal or emotional support animal as a reasonable accommodation to help you work or perform a specific task at workTemporary workforce – Understand how individuals hired by staffing agencies are also protected under the ADAVeterans – Learn about additional ADA protections and resources for veterans who have suffered from service-connected disabilities, impairments, or health conditions that arise because of specific events in the military serviceAddiction and recovery - Understand how the ADA protects individuals in recovery, how to request an ADA accommodation related to your recovery, and how the ADA protects individuals who abuse alcohol differently from current illegal drug usersMiscommunication, bullying, harassment and discrimination – Learn how to effectively communicate and resolve conflict with your employer. Understand different types of discrimination and how to file a formal complaint when there are no other options availableMature workforce (workers over 55) - Understand how ADA accommodations can address workplace needs that will enable you to be more productive at workUnderstand how to use leave and other benefits to receive treatment for a serious illness or let you rest and recover from the latest flare-up of an episodic conditionFind your path to working and living well with a health conditionThis book includes lots of flow charts, examples, resources, and much more!The FREE downloadable Employee Workbook, which comes with this book, helps employees research, prepare, and request their specific workplace accommodation needs. A print version of the Making It Work Employee Workbook is also available through Amazon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheryl Ellis
    Release dateMay 12, 2020
    ISBN9781733503013
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    Making It Work: Managing Your Health Condition Through ADA Workplace Accommodations
    Author

    Sheryl Ellis

    Sheryl Ellis, PHRca, SHRM-CP, ADACSheryl has more than 20 years of experience in human resources. She is a recognized expert in Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and she specializes in helping workplaces design ADA-compliant processes. In her work as an ADA coordinator, Sheryl helps businesses create processes and a culture that facilitates the accommodation requirements of the ADA.She currently works as a consultant at Augmented HR Solutions (https://www.aughrs.com). Prior to that, she provided HR services in a variety of industries including nonprofits, communications, IT, hospitality, and manufacturing. She has worked with businesses ranging in size from start-ups to medium-sized businesses. Sheryl’s experience managing a staffing agency and working for several professional employer organizations (PEO) has given her a unique insight in managing vendor relationships and HR challenges.Sheryl earned the Certified ADA Coordinator (ADAC) through the ADA Coordinator Training Certification Program (ACTCP), a program administered by the Great Plains ADA Center and overseen and issued by the University of Missouri – College of Human and Environmental Sciences, School of Architectural Studies.Sheryl is also a Certified Professional in Human Resources with an expertise in regulations and legal mandates specific to the state of California (PHRca) and a Certified Human Resources Professional (SHRM-CP) through the Society of Human Resources Management. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and her Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

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