Ensuring employer compliance is more difficult today with an increasing number of leave laws and a growing recognition that true success in this realm requires compassion as well as flexibility, and a willingness to think outside the proverbial box. How do absence and disability managers walk the tightrope of legal requirements and support employees during emotional times in their lives? Does it require superpowers? This issue of @Work magazine illustrates the need for professionals to track leave laws (and their variations across the country) while taking a creative approach to accommodation requests to ensure compliance and help employees stay at work when possible and return to work when it is safe to do so.
