4 ways to keep employee accommodation conversations compliant

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Compliance regulations often limit employers when it comes to conversations about employee accommodations because many direct questions are off-limits. However, an employer is most successful in implementing proper workplace accommodations when they have a solid understanding of an employee’s medical condition. Unfortunately, they often have little insight into the medical condition and fear becoming noncompliant by asking the wrong questions.

Given that asking questions is a vital first step for helping an employee with a medical condition at work, here are four tips a broker can provide an employer for initiating a compliant discussion to help an employee find a solution: