What is my obligation as an Employer?
California employers are required to engage in an interactive, problem-solving accommodations process - including consultation with qualified experts where necessary, with their disabled employees to identify and implement effective accommodations. In the interactive process, neither the employer nor the employee may determine the appropriate accommodation without the benefit of fully informed and objective expert opinion.

Why Utilize Focus On Intervention’s Employer Assistance Services?

• Qualified experts trained in determining what accommodations are necessary to enable the employee to perform identified jobs.
• Focus On Intervention has been assisting employers with the “return to work” process since our inception in 1991.
• We are “hands-on” consultants, in the field, talking to employers and employees about the physical and mental
  requirements of jobs.
• FOI consultants are skilled in evaluation and negotiation.
• A proven Focus On Intervention process is used to evaluate “return to work” options and determine feasibility.
• FOI consultants are trained in evaluation and implementation of ergonomic theory and practices

Focus On Intervention’s Employer Assistance Process

• Meet with employer representatives and employee.
• Open and non-confrontational discussion with all involved participants
• Evaluate open positions within the company for feasibility to include identifying essential functions of the jobs and possible modifications.
• Utilize ergonomic theory and practices to evaluate feasibility of options.
• Provide written documentation of meeting results, efforts and outcome.
• Provide continued evaluation of options per employer need.