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Dear Littler: Our Wandering Workers Have Wandered Off With Our Equipment

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Dear Littler: We are a multi-state employer that allowed a large percentage of our employees to work remotely during the pandemic. To help facilitate the transition to home offices, we provided our remote workers with office...more

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Roving Employees and How to Pay Them

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Employers in the not-to-distant past constructed pay scales based in part on the location of the employees. Employers routinely paid employees in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles a premium. By 2021, however, the...more

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Massachusetts DOR Stops Applying COVID-19 Telecommuting Policy

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In a recently issued guidance, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue indicated that the emergency telecommuting rules it put in place during the Massachusetts COVID-19 state of emergency would cease to be in effect as of...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Like A Good Neighbor, New York Is Still Free To Tax You – Sorry For The Inconvenience

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NH vs MA- Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied New Hampshire’s request that the Court exercise its original jurisdiction under the Constitution[i] to hear and resolve a conflict involving the taxation by Massachusetts...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Disturbing Ninth Circuit Holding On Inclusion Of Per Diem Expense Reimbursement In FLSA Regular Rate

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As a general rule, employee expense reimbursements are not includible in the regular rate for purposes of overtime computation. When the reimbursements, however, are unreasonable or out of whack (i.e. too high) as regards...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New York State Releases First Guidance on New Paid Sick Leave Law

As we previously reported, New York State’s Paid Sick Leave law (“NYSPSL”) went into effect on September 30, 2020. While employees are not permitted to take sick leave under NYSPSL until January 1, 2021, many questions...more

Littler

How to Employ—and Payroll—a Telecommuter Working from Home Overseas

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Telecommuting used to be rare because it used to be almost impossible. Before today’s sophisticated workplace information technology, logistical challenges made it tough for a “lone wolf” employee to work remotely from home,...more

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Employer Responsibilities Mount as California Fires Rage

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While parts of Northern California are still reeling from damaging wildfires there two months ago, multiple fires are currently threatening Santa Barbara/Ventura, Los Angeles and Northern San Diego Counties. Fueled by high...more

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Hurricane Irma: 10 Challenges for Employers

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Hurricane Irma shows no sign of relenting as it barrels toward Florida and the Southeast Coast of the United States. As noted in a prior Littler article about Irma, safety and security are the top priorities at this point....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Blizzards, Hurricanes, and That Dreaded TORCON Index

Many “it was the worst day of my life” stories begin with a weather event. I will never forget sitting with a client in an early April morning mediation several years ago when she received a call on her cell phone. She was...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Fenwick Employment Brief - May 2014

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Disability Accommodation Through Telecommuting More Reasonable In Modern Workplace - In EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, the federal Sixth Circuit appellate court (covering Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee) recently...more

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Labor Letter, February 2013: Should Your Employees Telecommute?

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Technology advances and innovations bring advantages and efficiencies. But, sooner or later, most changes bring potential disadvantages as well. In the end, we can’t resist technological change: the trick is to leverage the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Employment Law Commentary: How to Save Gas . . . and Prevent Heartburn: The Legal Issues Surrounding Telecommuting

If you skipped this morning’s commute and are reading this article in your jammies, you understand the benefits of telecommuting. You are not alone. Although fewer than two percent of working Americans are considered to be...more

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