In a recent Business Insider article, Farrell Fritz Partner Domenique Camacho Moran shared her insights on return-to-office (RTO) mandates. While some employees are pushing back against these requirements, Moran emphasized that most workers “do not have a choice” unless protected by a contractual or statutory right.
From the article:
Domenique Camacho Moran, a partner at the law firm Farrell Fritz in New York, who tends to represent management in employment-related matters, told BI that most employees “do not have a choice” regarding how their job is performed.
“Absent some contractual obligation, it is the employer’s decision as to whether a job should or should not be performed remotely,” Camacho Moran said.
However, said Camacho Moran, just because an employee has an illness or a disability “does not mean that remote work is the appropriate accommodation.”
“They don’t get to choose their accommodation,” said Camacho Moran. “They must be accommodated if they have a disability that requires accommodation, but it’s not a choice as to which accommodation.”
Read the article here:
Workers Angry About RTO Orders Basically Have No Legal Way to Fight It – Business Insider