New Year, New Changes to ADA	Back to entire listing
	Don't be "disabled" by the amended Americans with Disabilities Act. Learn how the new Americans with Disabilities Act will affect the workplace as well as to review employer obligations under the ADA that did not change. The new Act took effect January 1, 2009. Among other changes, the Act expands the definition of who is disabled. Therefore, more employees may be entitled to accommodations. This and other changes will place additional burdens and pressures on employers and managers to comply with the law.
	Presented by: Myra K. Creighton, Partner - Fisher & Phillips LLP
	Myra Creighton is a partner in the Atlanta office. Her practice in labor and employment law has focused on litigation and counseling clients concerning issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and sexual harassment. She also routinely presents seminars and training programs on those areas of the law. Myra authored the chapter entitled "Mental Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act" in the treatise, Mental and Emotional Injuries in Employment Litigation, Second Edition, published by the Bureau of National Affairs in 2001. Myra is also co-author of "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Employee Assistance Programs As Sources of Liability," 24 Employee Relations Law Journal 79 (1998); and "Mental Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Management Rights Approach," 20 Employee Relations Law Journal 541 (1995). Prior to joining the firm, Myra was a law clerk for Judge Duross Fitzpatrick of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.