Work From Home Legislation

[Dixie Cup]

SOME workers. Which will create even more division among workers, even in the same socioeconomic class. Divide and conquer. That's the extremist way.

I understand exactly where you're coming from. Our office structure doesn't allow for working from home & since bus service sucks where our office is, I drive. So you're correct in stating that I'm incurring expenses that those working from home don't incur and that they will also have available a claim for home office that I don't have. If I had a choice, I would happily work from home but I don't.

As for tax purposes, as long as the employer fills out a T2200 form a small percentage of home office expenses can be claimed if the employer requires you to work from home and you incur out of pocket expenses. However, if these cost are reimbursed by the company then there is no claim to be made.

 

[petros]

The other day I was thinking about work from home legislation becoming permanent in Canada and the US as it is becoming in Europe.
This is a clever little ploy by so-called progressives to create even further division within the working class.
The biggest problem with it is there are jobs that simply can't be done from home. This will help create a new economic separation of the working class instead of making things more "equal" as the proggies like to claim as one of their goals.
It may seem small but the fact is, this creates a class of workers who won't have to spend a portion of their paycheque every week to earn their paycheque every week while others will still have no choice. And I sure don't see the ol' employment expense deduction making a come-back, at all!
Let's say I work in an office environment making $100,000/yr and you work in a factory making $60,000/yr. Work from home legislation gets enacted and suddenly I have no expenses in getting to work. Meanwhile, you have to continue spending money on rising costs like gas, insurance, maintenance and repairs, etc just to get to work which just widens the income gap between you and I. And for no good reason really.

How long before a forklift can be ran from home or garbage truck, a snowplow, tractor, a crane etc etc etc?

 

[NZDoug]

COVID-19 has saved the world from excessive progress.
Global problems requires global solutions.
Not MAGA.
Working from homes means less stress on roads and highways, making further construction un necessary.
Its also accelerating the rate towards a cashless society.
Robics and automation will make about 1/2 the population worldwide becopme completely useless and as corporations become larger than governments and then internationalize, no one will care about those cast aside, unless socialism strengthens worldwide.

 

[Hoid]

COVID-19 has saved the world from excessive progress.
Global problems requires global solutions.
Not MAGA.
Working from homes means less stress on roads and highways, making further construction un necessary.
Its also accelerating the rate towards a cashless society.
Robics and automation will make about 1/2 the population worldwide becopme completely useless and as corporations become larger than governments and then internationalize, no one will care about those cast aside, unless socialism strengthens worldwide.

Any manufacturer who lays off an employee whose job was taken over by a machine can still afford to pay that employee the same salary.

Universal guaranteed income could be provided by private industry.

 

[Jinentonix]

Without work from home our economy would have collapsed months ago.

Obviously extraordinary circumstances notwithstanding. Geesh, no surprise THAT had to be pointed out to you.


Clearly the topic is about permanent legislation, not temporary measures.

 

[Jinentonix]

I live in Scarborough. My co-worker lives in Oshawa. We go to same office in downtown Toronto. He spends 45 more minutes in trains than I do and pays twice as much in fares. We earn the same amount of $. Also not fair but just like the work from home scenario, just life.

No, that's his choice to live in Oshawa and commute to Toronto. The govt didn't legislate it.

 

[Jinentonix]

Any manufacturer who lays off an employee whose job was taken over by a machine can still afford to pay that employee the same salary.

Yeah, because those machines are 100% free to manufacture and purchase. Never mind that someone should explain the piss poor dynamics of capital cost depreciation to you.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

No, that's his choice to live in Oshawa and commute to Toronto. The govt didn't legislate it.

It's also people's choice to take jobs where telework is possible, or not.

And it's the choice of each person where to live relative to work, with attendant commuting expenses. And setting up for telework wasn't cheap.

Sounds like you're angling for equality of outcome, you li'l socialist, you. You sound like an IWW organizer. It's weird.

 

[NZDoug]

Any manufacturer who lays off an employee whose job was taken over by a machine can still afford to pay that employee the same salary.
Universal guaranteed income could be provided by private industry.

U&niversal guaranteed income would work in places like Canada, but its the sh*t hole countries are going to be the ones with major problems.
Who will pay to keep them afloat?
Trumpland?