Managing Employee Leaves

Every organization that has employees will face a time when an employee needs time off outside of their regular paid time off. Having strong policies in place will help employers navigate employee leaves.  This session will focus on the laws that affect organizations; how organizational culture influences leave policies, properly handling employee benefits while on leave, and returning employees after their leave.  During the session, leave scenarios will be discussed to walk participants through the process of identifying the type of leave appropriate for the situation.

• Participants will learn about the federal laws that affect employee leaves
• Participants will learn how organizational culture affects leave policies
• Participants will learn how to apply leave policies to employee situations
• Participants will learn how to manage employee benefits while employees are on leave
• Participants will learn how paid programs such as worker’s compensation and disability payment work concurrent with unpaid leave policies
• Participants will learn how to effectively return employees to work after leave

• Reasons employees need leave
• Types of leave policies an organization should have in place
• Federal FMLA
• Non-FMLA leave policies – organization appropriate
• Leaves related to the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Leaves related to Worker’s Compensation
• Managing Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
• Managing employee benefits during a leave

Employee leave applies to all organization regardless of size.  This presentation applies to all organizations.

• Managers
• HR Mangers
• Business Leaders

Kimberly Nash is a passionate human resource professional, who has spent more than 30 years as a trailblazer to advance the profession and mentor human resource professionals along their growth and development journey.

After several years of working for organizations as their first HR leader, she transitioned into a consulting role.  She partnered with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, for-profit, and not-for-profit, to mentor their human resource professionals and to assist in strengthening the human resource function of the organization.  

In 2017, Kim founded her company, THriv, to mentor, coach, teach, and train human resource professionals and other leaders for success. She partners with organizations to provide a variety of business consulting, training & development, compliance management, and other human resource-related services.

She had the opportunity to speak on leadership and human resource-related topics at a variety of events locally and nationally including the 2019 & 2022 National SHRM Conferences.  

Kim has spent more than 20 years teaching the SHRM HR Essentials, the SHRM Learning System, and other human resource-related courses to mentor and encourage human resource professionals to grow in their professional development and pass the certification exam! Kim teaches through a variety of universities and has recently joined the SHRM Instructional Team.

Kim holds the SHRM-SCP certification through the Society of Human Resource Management, the SPHR certification through the HR Certification Institute, the Compensation Management Specialist designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefits, and has completed the John C. Maxwell Certification Program to teach, coach, train, and speak.

Kim is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a Past President of the Human Resource Professionals of Central PA.  She is a graduate of York College of PA with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Education and holds an MBA/Human Resource Management from the University of Phoenix.