ADA Escape Room: Solving the Accommodation Puzzles that Keep Employers Up at Night

ADA accommodation requests are rarely neat, simple or textbook. More often, they arrive wrapped in uncertainty, operational challenges and just enough legal risk to keep HR professionals awake at night. Littler Shareholder Jeff Nowak and ComPsych Vice President Matt Morris present a practical, fast-paced session focused on the accommodation issues employers wrestle with every day.

Drawing on real-world scenarios, recent developments and years of helping employers navigate the ADA, Jeff and Matt will share practical strategies for managing difficult accommodation requests, engaging in a meaningful interactive process, and reaching defensible solutions that work for both employees and the business.

Along the way, attendees can expect actionable guidance, candid discussion and the occasional dose of Jeff and Matt's trademark corny humor (and singing). Whether you're struggling with extended medical leave, neurodiversity-related accommodation or interactive process nightmares, you'll leave with concrete tools you can put to work immediately.

Presenters will tackle questions including:

• When is enough enough? Managing repeated extensions of leave and determining when additional leave remains a reasonable accommodation versus an undue hardship.
• The neurodiversity accommodation boom: Practical strategies for addressing requests tied to ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, executive-function challenges, sensory sensitivities, communication preferences and workplace interactions.
• Interactive process pitfalls that create liability: Employers are losing these cases, and not just over policy gaps. Common employer mistakes, warning signs of a broken accommodation process, and the practical approaches courts and agencies now expect to see.

No theory. No legalese. Just practical answers to the accommodation requests that land on your desk every week and leave you wondering whether you're making the right call. And yes, there will be corny jokes. There may be groans. And there will be singing. There definitely will be singing.

Time:
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. PT
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. MT
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. CT
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. ET