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Are we responsible for data kept at a worker's home, or accessible on a home worker's computer?
Yes. If your employees will be dealing with information on other people, you should make data security an issue in the initial checks you make on employees, to find out whether they would be suitable as home workers. You should have a policy on data security which should cover home workers. You will certainly want to ensure that they can lock their work away when they are not working on it.
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- If we ask some people to telework from home, do we have to offer them a new employment contract?
- Can we require people to work from home?
- Can we cut the pay of people who work from home?
- Do we have to pay new workers, recruited to work from home, at the same rate as employees moved from our offices to work from home?
