I was recently reminiscing with colleagues about the days of hopping on a plane or driving for hours to join a brief meeting a few states away. With Covid-19’s two-year mark just behind us, this exercise is often replaced by a simple Zoom call as
many employers have experienced a fundamental shift from the traditional office to the “hybrid workplace,” in which more employees work from home more of the time.
Experts can debate whether the remote office is a permanent fixture of the modern workplace or a temporary measure in response to the pandemic, but it’s clear that many employees will continue working from home for the foreseeable future. Various technologies have made the transition to remote work seamless in many industries, but things are not quite as simple from an employment law standpoint.
To understand why, let’s imagine a financial services firm with locations in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Before the pandemic, all staff worked from one of those two locations every day, but now certain employees who were based in New York work from home in Connecticut, New...
MUNCIE, Ind.–A Muncie man faces eight federal charges accusing him of filing more than $1 million in false COVID-19 tax credit claims. Gregory Vernon Dupree, 38, was charged in a federal indictmen...