Webinar:

The ADA at Work: Considerations for COVID-19

Date:
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern
Presented by:
  • Guest Speaker
  • Wendy Strobel Gower

Employers always need to balance the overarching purpose and productivity of their business with the needs of individual employees.  This has never been as pertinent as it is right now, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar will feature a discussion about balancing guidance on COVID-19 containment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  During this webinar, we will examine implications of the pandemic on disability-related inquiries, medical examinations, and interpreting direct threat.  We will also talk about requirements for reasonable accommodations for telework, requests for which have spiked due to the required social distancing period.

 

Presenters: 

·        Wendy Strobel Gower, Director, Northeast ADA Center and Co-Director of EARN 

·        Karen Goss, Co-Director, Mid-Atlantic ADA Center

 

Karen Goss

Karen Goss is the Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center. She is responsible for program evaluation and reporting obligations, and also works to coordinate the Center's outreach efforts. One of her roles prior to joining the Center was as the Business Development Specialist with the One-Stop Career Center in Wheaton, Maryland. In that role she worked closely with the Department of Economic Development, businesses, state and local governments, health care providers, and Maryland's Lead Disability Program Navigator. She has extensive business management and human resources experience in the private sector.

 

Wendy Strobel Gower

Wendy Strobel Gower is a program director at Cornell University’s Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability.  She leads the Northeast ADA Center and fee for service work to educate managers and supervisors about including people with disabilities. She is co-director of EARN.  Wendy has 25 years of experience in disability and employment.  She has worked extensively in the application and training of issues around employment and reasonable accommodation in the workplace for people with disabilities. other areas of interest include inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace, disability legislation and its impact on work, and the identification and accommodation of the functional limitations of disabilities across the lifespan.

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