The Right Route to Remote - Mitigating Risk When Hiring Out-Of-State Workers

Remote work – and expanding the traditional work locations into new jurisdictions – is a hot topic for businesses across industries, rife with unanticipated pitfalls and risks. 

Join Crowell for a presentation that will examine the unexpected legal implications of hiring out-of-state workers, and highlight Crowell’s new, interactive “Remote Worker” survey heat map, featuring the answers – across all 50 states – to critical questions relating to hiring and managing employees in each state. This program, Crowell’s heat map tool, and the comprehensive 50-state survey Crowell has developed also will help employers ensure state-specific compliance for new and existing workers who are not remote.

The presentation (which is approved for NY, CA, and IL CLE credit, and is pending approval for VA credit) will explore:  

• The proliferation of alternative work arrangements, and where this trend fits within today’s unusually active labor market
• Specific areas of employment law that are implicated by the practice of retaining and hiring workers in various jurisdictions, including: Personnel Policies, Benefits, Financial, Leave, and Insurance  
• Unexpected risks associated with permitting remote work or otherwise expanding into new jurisdictions   
• Recently enacted statutes and legal trends that may impact an employer’s decision to permit hybrid work arrangements or engage out-of-state workers 
• Best practices for risk mitigation in the remote work space, including a preview of the “Remote Worker” survey heat map