Office Workstations in the Home (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Some of the experiments have been with production workers and disabled employees. It is clear, however, that we do not have broad experience in this country with the use of large numbers of people doing traditional video display terminal (VDT)
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laws and regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Service Contracts Act (for federal contractors) , workers' compensation statutes, and various federal and state child labor laws.
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Most electronic homework scenarios involve workers who should be defined as employees. They do not have the requisite skill, investment, or opportunity to be considered as independent contractors.
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If the electronic homework is done under a government service contract, the worker must be paid and records maintained as required under the appropriate wage determination. A major concern of any homework situation is how to avoid violating the child labor laws.
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As pressure for expanding home workstations grows, so will the pressure to expand collective bargaining agreement protections to existing work forces. Some employers may use home workstations as a device to eliminate or reduce the union's relationship to their business.
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Is the ergonomics of the normal office replicated in the home? We have recently been exposed to numerous articles and at least one congressional hearing on the safety of the video display terminals that are at the heart of office workstation activity.
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Clearly, we may be at the frontier of new ways to work, particularly in the interaction of the home and the traditional workplace of office or factory. The potential pitfalls described here can be turned into a challenge- to examine home workstation projects for sound business reasons and not as a way of getting "cheap" employees.
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