Good Intentions
Gone Awry: What Every Employer Should Know About the
Interaction of the ADA and FMLA
About the Presenter
Peter Petesch, managing partner for the Washington, D.C. office
of the management-side labor law firm Ford & Harrison LLP,
represents a wide variety of businesses in labor and employment
matters. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of
Columbia, federal appellate courts nationwide, and the U.S. Supreme
Court. He counsels employers on problem-solving and employment
policy matters, litigates employment and labor cases, and negotiates
collective bargaining agreements. He teaches employment law
to both human resource professionals and attorneys in continuing
legal education courses. He was counsel for the Society for
Human Resource Management (SHRM) on SHRM’s amicus briefs
in four landmark Supreme Court ADA cases: Sutton v. United Air
Lines, Murphy v. United Parcel Service, US Airways
v. Barnett, and Chevron USA, Inc. v. Echazabal. He
also appeared on behalf of SHRM as amicus curiae in Reeves
v. Sanderson Plumbing, Inc., another employment case. He
received a 1997 National Business and Labor Award for Leadership
on HIV/AIDS from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
and served as Co-Chair to the Business Partners Board for the CDC’s
Business Responds to AIDS program.
He served on the national
SHRM Ethics Panel, and also served on the SHRM Code Integration
Team, working on the development and refinement of the Code of
Ethical and Professional Standards in Human Resource Management. He
now serves on the SHRM Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Mr.
Petesch has been a presenter at several SHRM national and regional
conferences on a variety of ADA and other employment law issues.
He has published numerous articles on ADA and other employment
issues in HR Magazine, Mosaics, and HR
Legal Report, and often appeared on SHRM’s HR Newsscan. Mr.
Petesch has been interviewed and published on employment law issues on PBS, ABC,
CNBC, CNN, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
USA Today, Business Week, HR Magazine, HR News, BNA Daily Labor Report, Money,
Workforce, and the business sections of newspapers nationwide. He
is also on the editorial advisory board for Thompson Publications’ ADA
Compliance Guide and Leave & Disability Coordination Handbook.
He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor
and employment lawyers in the 2007 edition, and is AV Peer Review
Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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