Making It Work: Managing Your Health Condition Through ADA Workplace Accommodations
About this ebook
Making it Work is an easy-to-understand guide to workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. It will help you:
· Understand how the ADA applies to you and your job
· Research, request, and negotiate a reasonable accommodation with your employer
· Learn about special cases: service animals, temporary workforce, veterans’ issues, and the mature workforce (workers over 55)
· Understand how to use leave and other benefits
· Find your path to working and living well with a health condition
Author Sheryl Ellis offers guidance from her own experience as a human resource professional, a certified ADA compliance facilitator, and an employee with a health condition.
Book and workbook are available in print on Amazon.
About the author
Sheryl Ellis, PHRca, SHRM-CP, ADAC
Sheryl has more than 20 years of experience in human resources. She is a recognized expert in Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and she specializes in helping workplaces design ADA-compliant processes. In her work as an ADA coordinator, Sheryl helps businesses create processes and a culture that facilitates the accommodation requirements of the ADA.
She currently works as a consultant at Augmented HR Solutions (https://www.aughrs.com). Prior to that, she provided HR services in a variety of industries including nonprofits, communications, IT, hospitality, and manufacturing. She has worked with businesses ranging in size from start-ups to medium-sized businesses. Sheryl’s experience managing a staffing agency and working for several professional employer organizations (PEO) has given her a unique insight in managing vendor relationships and HR challenges.
Sheryl earned the Certified ADA Coordinator (ADAC) through the ADA Coordinator Training Certification Program (ACTCP), a program administered by the Great Plains ADA Center and overseen and issued by the University of Missouri – College of Human and Environmental Sciences, School of Architectural Studies.
Sheryl is also a Certified Professional in Human Resources with an expertise in regulations and legal mandates specific to the state of California (PHRca) and a Certified Human Resources Professional (SHRM-CP) through the Society of Human Resources Management. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and her Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.