When home is where the workplace is, injury claims get murky | Vancouver Sun

Delineating work tasks from personal ones in the case of injury is becoming an increasing area of focus for employment lawyers. Author of the article: Matt Scace As remote work enters a second year as a mainstream concept of work, injuries in the workplace have become a proliferating grey zone for employers, employment lawyers and worker compensation boards to navigate. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG files As remote work enters another year as a mainstream concept, injuries in the workplace have become a proliferating grey zone for employers, employment lawyers and worker compensation boards to navigate. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Overall, total workplace injury claims haven’t risen and aren’t expected to, numerous lawyers said. But when home is where the workplace is, delineating work tasks from personal ones in the case of injury is becoming an increasing area of focus for employment lawyers. “This remote work environment throws disarray into things because it’s kind of a weird context physically where the injuries can occur,” Richard Johnson, a partner at Vancouver-based Ascent Employment Law told Postmedia News. A Quebec ruling earlier this month found that an Air Canada call centre employee who injured…
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