Working From Home and the Many Issues
That Face This Type of Workforce
With
Kathleen Davenport
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
January 13, 2022
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
With the onset of Covid-19, many employers were forced to close their nonessential businesses to prevent the widespread of the disease. However, many businesses continued their business operations by allowing their employees to work from home. Today some businesses continue to have employees work from home and through this period, several issues have been raised concerning this new type of workforce.
This presentation will discuss the BWC’s response to Covid, some statistics on Covid claims and what constitutes a Covid claim. It will also discuss the compensability of any claim and relate it to potential at home injuries. There will be talk about employees that work from home but live in another state. There will be discussion about the employer’s ability to report payroll to the telecommuting classification.
Kathleen Davenport is the Southwest Regional Business Consultant with the BWC’s Employer Services Division located in Springdale, Ohio. She has been with the BWC since 1994.
Anyone interested in attending this meeting will be required to register and pay. This is a virtual meeting that will be conducted as a Zoom Meeting.
The cost of this meeting is $5. This money will help ease the strain on the Safety Council’s budget due to the current situation. We deeply appreciate your support and continued participation with our meetings during this difficult time. Our virtual meeting will be available online to those who registered by connecting to the prescribed link that will be sent to them by email. Please note that the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation BWC’s Safety Council Rebate Program has been suspended for the Program Year 2021.