[ad_1]
Companies that are available due to the environment or nature of their work choose to work from home, not from the office.
It is a measure to prevent an unknown outbreak.
In fact, when we surveyed the current status of telecommuting for the top 100 national sales companies through last year, 88% of the 69 companies that responded said they work from home.
However, there are many areas where the standards related to working from home, neither for companies nor for workers, are clear.
Due to so many consultations, the Ministry of Labor prepared a manual synthesizing opinions of experts and academics.
Let’s see what it contains.
While working from home, I fell in the bathroom and injured myself.
Can it be recognized as a business accident?
So is.
If a toilet accident occurs while working at work, it can be recognized as an accident at home, just like it is a work accident, and it can be recognized as an industrial accident.
Like people studying in a cafe, how about working in a cafe near your home?
It’s not possible.
If you change your workplace arbitrarily, you may violate the rules of the service.
However, if your child needs to take remote classes or if it is difficult to work from home due to an environment such as the Internet, you can do so with the approval of your supervisor.
At the company level, there were many inquiries about whether employees can use GPS to determine if they have left their workplace.
Once in principle, this is not possible, but if the workers agree.
However, the company must not force consent.
There are many complaints that the boundaries between lunch and work hours have disappeared due to working from home.
From a business point of view, travel hours and time usage can be thought of as relatively free and commercial orders can be issued regardless of lunch time.
But no.
As with going to the office, a one hour lunch break must be guaranteed.
Can teleworkers receive food and transportation expenses?
If the company has paid only for the food and transportation expenses that were actually used, it is difficult to say that there is an obligation to pay for work from home.
However, if a collective agreement or labor regulations stipulate that payments are made in a uniform and fixed way, teleworkers can also receive them.
Changes in the work environment brought about by the Corona Incident 19, the Ministry of Employment and Labor predicted that even if the situation in the Crown stabilizes, working from home will become a new work culture.
As can be seen as the beginning, in detail, workers and management must clash to see what makes sense.
The questions and answers on remote work and the full manual can be found in the online advice center for remote work on the Work-Life Balance website of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
