Event Details
Navigating the Complicated World of Leaves of Absence
| Date: | October 8, 2024, 8:00am – 10:00am |
| Organizer: | SHRA |
| Location: | Grill 28 200 Grafton Rd Portsmouth, NH 03801 |
| Price: | MEMBERS: $15 Virtual, $25 In-Person / NON-MEMBERS: $25 Virtual, $45 In-Person / NOTE: If you sign up for a meeting and end up not attending nor notifying Daniela, you will be charged for the meeting to cover the cost of breakfast. |
| Event Type: | Monthly Program |
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Register HERE! Please note that you must register by Wednesday, October 2nd.
This interactive and informative session will discuss the complexities of managing leaves of absence to include ADA, FMLA, Worker’s Comp. and pregnancy leaves. The session will discuss how and when leaves of absence should be utilized and implemented. Hypothetical scenarios will be discussed and attendees will use polling.
About our Speaker:
Debra Weiss Ford is Office Managing Principal of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Ms. Ford has over 40 years of experience representing employers in litigation matters before the state and federal courts and administrative agencies. She also represents employers before the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, the Maine Human Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Hampshire Department of Labor, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
Ms. Ford is listed by Chambers as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is the author of the New Hampshire chapter of Workplace Privacy, a legal reference book for managers and human resource professionals, published by the Thompson Publishing Group, a division of West Publications. Ms. Ford was elected as a Fellow to The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in June 2006 and selected as a Senior Fellow in The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society by the Litigation Counsel of America in 2014. She is named as New Hampshire’s Best Labor and Employment Lawyer by Business NH Magazine. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White, Inc., and has been recognized by New England Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 women lawyers in New England and one of the top 100 lawyers in New England. She is listed in Top NH Lawyers in Labor and Employment in New Hampshire Magazine and has consistently been named the Best Lawyers’ Manchester Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year. She is also rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Ford has been named one of the “Leaders in their Field” in the Chambers USA Legal Guide since 2012. Ms. Ford is rated a “Top Rated Lawyer” by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell™. Ms. Ford serves as a board member for the Seacoast Human Resources Association, New Hampshire SPCA, and she is a past board member of The Portsmouth Music Hall.
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