Laura M. Fant, Special Employment Law Counsel | Proskauer

Laura Fant is a special employment law counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Department and co-administrative leader of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity Practice Group. Her practice is dedicated to providing clients with practical solutions to common (and uncommon) employment concerns, with a focus on legal compliance, risk management and mitigation strategies, and workplace culture considerations.

Laura regularly counsels clients across numerous industries on a wide variety of employment matters involving recruitment and hiring, employee leave and reasonable accommodation issues, performance management, and termination of employment . She also advises on preparing, implementing and enforcing employment and separation agreements, employee handbooks and company policies, as well as provides training on topics including discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Laura is a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Law and the Workplace blog and The Proskauer Brief podcast.

I. The interplay of FMLA and ADA reasonable accommodation obligations | 2:00pm – 2:20pm

II. Common mistakes when calculating and designating FMLA leave (and how to avoid them) | 2:20pm – 2:40pm

III. Leave and accommodation issues unique to the hybrid/remote workforce | 2:40pm – 3:00pm

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

IV. Employee mental health and the workplace | 3:10pm – 3:40pm

V. The importance of policies and processes when addressing leave of absence/accommodation requests | 3:40pm – 4:10pm