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Discuss why it is important for an HIM manager to have an understanding of employment laws.

1. Discuss the importance of policy and procedure manuals in applying healthcare laws.
2. Explain the steps in the progressive discipline process.
3. Well before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) certain employers were required in some instances to provide "reasonable accommodation" of the limitations of an employee or applicant. Specify when this occurred and list the conditions under which this requirement applied.
4. View the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) from the perspective of a working department manager and describe the ways in which this legislation has affected the manager's ability to manage.
5. What would you say to employees in a meeting if your organization was experiencing a union organizing campaign? Would you encourage them to think carefully about favoring union membership? Why or why not? 
6. How much do you believe you may legally ask a job candidate about arrests and convictions?
7. Why do you believe that a significant proportion of potential perpetrators of workplace violence have in common low self-esteem?
8. Why has it become a practice following certain instances of violence to make counselors available even to people who were not directly involved in the violence?
9. What would be your response to an attorney representing an employee who demands access to the employee's personnel file?

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