[aprilj]

Need some legal advice. Here is my situation. I work for a publicely owned company. This past February the company was having some finiancial issues in the corporate office in Va. I work in the payroll and billing office in west palm beach, Florida. After several people quit,or got laid off, there were only 2 of us left in the office. For finiancial reasons, they asked us if we would work from home seeing that neither one of us had to really deal with anyone in person. We agreed, cleaned out the office, sold furniture and moved into our homes. I have had to obtain and 800 toll free fax, my electric has doubled, high speed internet, internet phone had to be in place, etc. My question is all my monthly home expensive have doubled, are they resonsibly for any of it including a portion of my mortgage? It isn't cheap working from home and I think that they should have to pay for something. I know my phone bill and the fax bill which comes with the phone can be expensed, but what about the difference in electric for having the fax, copier, scanner, computer, internet phone running for 9 hrs a day and what about part of the mortgage. If not then I need to give a notice and move on because it is costing me more to work from home. Any advice would be extremely appreciated, thanks.

[excon]

Hello april:

You're not going to find a law that will give you relief. All these things you need should be negotiated with your boss. They will give them to you or they won't.

True, you should have done this before you accepted the new arrangement, but you didn't know. I think it's fair to tell your boss exactly that.

excon

[Fr_Chuck]

These are all costs that you have to negotiate with, and really needed to have been work out in your pay before you agreed to work from home.

Are you a hourly, salary or a 1099 employee.

All you can do is go back to them and ask for a new pay scale for the cost.