Including: Workers’ Compensation, Tax Issues, And Compliance with ADA and OSHA Regulations

Telecommuting is defined as using telecommunications technology to allow employees to work from remote locations (including the field, while traveling, or most typically from their homes) instead of commuting to a conventional workplace at a conventional time.  By definition, telecommuting decentralizes, defying conventional notions of how work, workers and the “workplace” are structured.

Workers’ compensation concerns and the fact that it is often unclear precisely when telecommuters are working, when are they preparing to work, and when they have temporarily stopped working.  In addition, there have been some cases where employees requested telework arrangements as a “reasonable accommodation” under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Read the full article by Ken Winter

vtrc.virginiadot.org/rsb/RSB12.pdf

Kate Montgomery ~ ERGOhealthy Coach