One of the most confusing areas of the ADA is complying with the employer's obligations to alcoholic and substance abusing employees. The confusion is partly due to the differing protections for each, which result from political deals made when the ADA was passed. Now you can add another degree of difficulty as courts begin to address bad or violent behavior that is caused by a disability and whether it is protected by the ADA and FMLA. Toss in the interaction of the FMLA, and you have a chef's salad of issues. We will sort through the issues in this Webinar and give you strategies that will help you cope.

• New ADA issue: Is bad or violent behavior that is caused by a disability protected by the ADA and FMLA?
• Alcohol and drug testing under the ADA: What is protected and when can you test?
• What protection does the ADA provide alcoholics?
• What can you require from an alcoholic employee?
• Substance abuse and the ADA
• When is FMLA leave available for troubled employees?
• Strategies and policies that will help you comply with the law

Moderator:
Susan Fahey Desmond
Shareholder
Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A.

Susan Fahey Desmond is a shareholder with Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. She has been representing management in all areas of labor and employment law since 1985. Ms. Desmond practices in the areas of labor and employment and civil litigation, including representing employers in Family and Medical Leave cases, discrimination claims relative to age, sex, disability, race, religion, and sexual harassment, and handling EEOC charges and other administrative complaints through the administrative and judicial process. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics relative to labor and employment law. She was named Outstanding Young Lawyer of Mississippi from the Mississippi Bar Association, Young Lawyers' Division, and also received an Award of Merit from the Jackson Young Lawyers Association. Ms. Desmond is a member of the American Bar Association, and she earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee School of Law. Ms. Desmond is licensed to practice in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Colorado.