Keeping the ADA Process Interactive and Moving Forward









With increasing cancer rates and expectations that new cancer diagnoses will cross the 2 million mark in 2024, employers should be prepared to support employees through their journeys and encourage them to return to work when possible.

While it’s easy to get mired in administrative clutter when fielding requests for accommodations, ensuring you focus first on stay-at-work options whenever employees request accommodation is the best way to ensure that everyone comes out whole!

This issue of the magazine encourages employers to step outside the traditional confines and seek new ways to support diverse groups of employees. It champions the notion that returning to work can be part of the healing process when a leave is necessary and provides examples of how employers can encourage employees to return to work as soon as possible. Read about the bravery needed to test new approaches to accommodations and the willingness to expand the concept of disability and absence management to be more inclusive. The issue, focused on of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Return to Work, includes articles about how employers can support employees diagnosed with cancer, benchmarking tips, how to avoid legal missteps after a leave of absence, ways to create accessible environments for employees with different types of disabilities, and more.