![]() Matrix Absence Management, 2020 NY Slip Op 06000 (3d Dept 2020). ![]() However, on October 22, 2020, the Appellate Division, Third Department issued a decision reversing the Full Board decision and directing the board to follow its more lenient approach in these types of claims. At that time, the board significantly dialed-back some of its more relaxed rules of compensability for injuries sustained by employees in work-from-home positions, and held that injuries sustained by employees working from home should only be found compensable if they occurred (1) during regular work hours, and (2) while the employee was actually performing his or her employment duties. On March 24, 2020, Chartwell Law published an article regarding the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board’s holding in the mandatory Full Board Memorandum of Decision Matter of Matrix Absence Management, WCB No. At the time, many New York employers were wondering how the more lenient Workers’ Compensation Law would be applied to claims if an employee was injured while working in his or her home, rather than in the traditional workplace. ![]() In March 2020, many employees began working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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