Law should make it easier for employees to claim the right to work from home

The increase in home working since March 2020 as a result of Covid-19 has brought remote working to the forefront of working life.

A new law on remote working should be tightened up to make it harder for an employer to refuse an employee’s request to work remotely, an Oireachtas committee has said.

The joint Committee on enterprise, trade, and employment made the recommendation in a report on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022.