[COLUMN] Employer must reimburse employees for necessary work-from-home expenses
Recent decisions from California courts remind us that California’s employee protections apply in this work-from-home era we’ve found ourselves in since Covid. When California issued its March 19, 2020 stay-at-home order due to the Covid-19 pandemic, IBM Corporation instructed its employees, including Paul Thai, to work from home. In order to accomplish their work duties,…