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Vermont labor board orders state to end return-to-office requirement for employees
The board said the state refused to bargain in good faith and ordered back pay, rehiring offers and other remedies for affected workers.
- On Wednesday, the Vermont Labor Relations Board ordered Governor Phil Scott's administration to rescind the "Hybrid Work Standard," ruling the state failed to bargain in good faith with the Vermont State Employees Association over the three-day-per-week return-to-office mandate.
- Citing a failure to bargain in good faith, the board found the administration unilaterally implemented the policy affecting more than 3,000 of roughly 8,000 state employees who previously worked remotely three or more days per week.
- Beyond rescinding the mandate, the state must reinstate employees who left due to the policy and "make all affected employees whole" by reimbursing any monetary losses caused by the unilateral change.
- Governor Scott rejected the ruling as "disappointing, but not surprising," calling the board "broken" and "biased" while filing an appeal with the Vermont Supreme Court on Wednesday.
- The Vermont State Employees Association called the decision a "stunning victory," emphasizing the order protects members' rights to negotiate their conditions of employment, contrasting the outcome with executive actions in Washington.
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Vermont labor board orders state to end return-to-office requirement for employees
The Vermont Labor Relations Board has ordered that Gov. Phil Scott’s administration “rescind” a controversial requirement that state employees return to their physical offices three days per week.
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You can work from home, labor board tells state employees
Scott vows legal appeal that returns state employees to Covid-era work from home rules By Guy Page Gov. Phil Scott sharply criticized the Wednesday, April 1 Vermont Labor Relations Board decision ordering his administration to rescind the post-Covid shutdown Hybrid Work Standard requiring state employees to return to thor workplace. The State sent most employees to work from home as a health precaution in March, 2020, shortly after the epidemic …
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