HR Besties: Beyond Compliance: Accommodating Disabilities at Work
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- LOA meetings
- Cringe corporate speak: ping
- Hot topic: accommodating disabilities at work
- How can we support our employees?
- Cost vs. comfort
- Ergonomics in the workplace
- Advocating for employees and yourself
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | You know, so I think one of the funnest things about starting a new job is when you get into that job and you are in discovery phase, right? |
| 0:16.0 | I mean, you're going into this workplace and every day is just constant learning. |
| 0:22.3 | You're just bombarded with information. |
| 0:25.1 | And I love that part. |
| 0:26.6 | I know that's overwhelming for so many people, but I love change, and I just love that |
| 0:31.1 | early discovery phase where it's like, what the hell is going on here? |
| 0:36.4 | I will never forget a job that I went into, obviously, HR leader. |
| 0:41.8 | And I got invited to this recurring meeting that was just called L-O-A review, |
| 0:48.9 | which stood for Leave of Absence Review. |
| 0:53.1 | And I was like, huh, you know, interesting. |
| 0:56.5 | Like, is this with the GM? |
| 0:59.2 | Is this with the leadership team? |
| 1:02.1 | Like, is this with health and safe? |
| 1:03.6 | Like, who is this with, right? |
| 1:05.5 | I click on it, and it's with all of the site admins. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm just like perplexed. Like, okay, like, what's the context of this? |
| 1:14.9 | Like, what are they reviewing? Right. And so, you know, I asked off to the side, you know, |
| 1:22.5 | what is this? Oh, well, we go through everyone who's out and, you know, and all of the, oh, wow, okay. |
| 1:29.1 | With all the people that don't need to know. I go, how long has this been going on? Oh, |
| 1:33.7 | years. You know, we just, this is how we keep track of, of people, maybe keys or supplies, equipment, |
| 1:40.6 | uniforms, whatever, right? Okay. So I roll up into this meeting and it's just as bad as it |
| 1:49.0 | sounds, but it was actually, it was actually worse. Oh. Because they had the list, which I don't know how |
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