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Managing Remote Work: 7 Tips for Creating Effective Employer Policies | Fisher Phillips


The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented change for the workplace after stay-at-home orders, isolation and quarantine requirements, and accommodation requests resulted in many employees temporarily working from home. Employers and employees alike recognized certain benefits of remote work arrangements, which led many business leaders to explore hybrid and permanent remote work policies. While remote work arrangements are not practical for every job or desired by every employer, when such arrangements are embraced and become embedded into company policy, employers need to ensure they are taking proper precautions. Below are seven tips that employers should consider when implementing remote work policies.

  1. Create a Written Remote Work Policy

    You should consider creating a written policy establishing the criteria and guidelines for working remotely. Will all employees and roles be eligible? Identify the roles that are critical to your business operations and determine whether those individuals can carry out their jobs while working remotely. Set performance standards and expectations from the start, and include policies on security and data protection, safety, and expectations about equipment and materials.

  2. Review Rules on Expense Reimbursement

    Be sure that your pay practices for all employees – those who work onsite and those who work remotely – comply with the applicable federal and state wage and hour laws. In some states, such as California, employers must ensure all business expenses that are “reasonable” and “necessary” to perform the job remotely are reimbursed. At least ten states – California, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota − and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring employers to reimburse employees for certain remote work expenses.

    Even if the applicable state does not require reimbursement, failure to reimburse could lead to allegations of federal wage and hour violations for those paid at or near the minimum wage. For example, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers generally don’t have to reimburse employees for work-related…

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3 arrests over breach claimed by ‘Phineas Fisher’ hacker – Beloit Daily News


Beloit Daily News

3 arrests over breach claimed by 'Phineas Fisher' hacker
Beloit Daily News
Spanish police have arrested three people over a data breach linked to a series of dramatic intrusions at European spy software companies — feeding speculation that the net has closed on an online Robin Hood figure known as Phineas Fisher.

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data breach – Google News

Matthew Fisher: President Trump’s ascent complicates Asia’s future – National Post


National Post

Matthew Fisher: President Trump's ascent complicates Asia's future
National Post
Asians are obsessed by the possibility that a showdown is looming between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, the South China Sea, rampant Chinese industrial espionage, Beijing's trade surplus with the U.S. — $ 366 billion in 2015 — or how it has devalued …

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What really happened between HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher? (Fortune)

Fortune:
What really happened between HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher?  —  To this day, only two people know the full truth.  But one thing is certain: The deeper you dig, the weirder it gets.  —  Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher  —  Mark Hurd was miffed.  It was 2007, two years into his tenure …

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