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Expert is a frequent speaker on HR topics and offers training on a full range of employment management topics to clients on-site and/or via phone or email.

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Principal Consultant

Expert provides consulting services, management training, litigation support, expert testimony, and investigations, and specialize in helping companies implement strategies to comply with personnel management regulations and employment law.

Areas of expertise include ADA, FEHA, FMLA, CFRA and PDL compliance, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, performance management, reasonable accommodation, essential function job descriptions, vocational analysis and rehabilitation, discrimination, workers' compensation, retaliation analysis and assistance with terminations.

Training programs are offered to develop in-house expertise and case specific consulting is available.

• Expert is an expert in HR areas relating to medical leave management and physical accommodation in the workplace. She has worked closely with clients to establish and maintain compliance with federal and state employment legislation, including the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Services include Return to Work (RTW) programs, modified / alternative work assessments, and development of essential function job analyses. This specialized knowledge allows Expert to help organizations reduce potential liability due to employment litigation.In the area of human resource policy development and implementation, Expert is highly experienced in a full range of employment matters, such as: • Management training • Employee policy handbook development • Organizational development• Employee life cycle management, including hiring and termination procedures • Performance management systems• Sexual harassment training• Essential function job descriptions
• Expert provided comprehensive vocational rehabilitation return to work services to injured workers. Services included transferable skills assessment, skill and abilities testing, accommodation analysis, and return to work services. She was responsibility for the development and implementation of proactive placement services including an English/Spanish Job Club. She was able to increase placement statistics from 30% to 90% in the Central Sierra region during a period of 18.5% unemployment.
• Expert is an experienced vocational expert for Social Security / Railroad Retirement Disability claims. She participated in many cases involving “ability to work” issues. She continues to provide expert assistance in the arena, and has been certified by the Federal Government to provide Social Security Ticket to Work services.
• She also provides full vocational rehabilitation services through Expert's Firm., including vocational assessments, testing, evaluation, job analysis, and plan development. Expert is an experienced Qualified Rehabilitation Representative (QRR) and Federal Government Certified, Ticket to Work provider, including assisting employers, employees, and worker's compensation and Social Security Disability recipients and claimants with modified/alternative work assessments and return to work services.
• Expert has special interests in the impact of computer ergonomics in the work place, workflow processes, and organizational communications. She has applied this knowledge as a Business Analyst in corporate accounts by developing procedural guidelines, verifying job descriptions, and implementing performance management systems.

• Expert in Corporate Policy:
• Government benefits, expert witness for consulting on Social Security benefits . See explanation in Project details section.
• Human resources expert witness for consulting on FMLA & harassment wrongful termination suit.