Work from home

Can Work From Home Be A Legal Right? Proposal Soon In Parliament Of This Country

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OB Bureau

Amsterdam: COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way the world thinks, works and behaves.

So much so that norms are being rewritten in such a way which would have seemed unthinkable two-and-a-half years ago.

Take work from home, for instance.

Who would have even dreamt of sitting at home and doing office work, days and months on end?

Top tech companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter had offered employees work from home option permanently.

Now, a country – The Netherlands — is mulling a policy on those lines.

Two Dutch lawmakers have proposed a legislation to establish work from home as a legal right.

Steven van Weyenberg, a member of pro-European D-66 Party, and Green Party member Senna Maatoug will introduce the legislation in parliament in the next few days, Weyenberg told Bloomberg.

“We have the green light for this new law thanks to the support we received from both employees and employers’ unions,” said Weyenberg. “We are very hopeful it will be passed before the summer.”

If the legislation is, indeed, passed in parliament, The Netherlands will become one of the first countries to make remote working flexibility legal.

OB Bureau

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