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Durham zoning board mulls home business, work-from-home rules
DURHAM — The Planning and Zoning Commission is continuing to find community feedback right after comprehensive reviews at a the latest general public hearing on regulation alterations for household-based mostly offices and firms. City Planner Robin Newton and the commission labored together to draft laws in August that Durham citizens had been capable to remark earlier this month. At the meeting, the fee tackled backlash on social media with regards to the proposed modifications that say that any house company that operates lawfully will not be afflicted by the proposed modifications. Fee chair Frank DeFelice clarified that “lawfully” indicates the enterprise has a allow or gained fee acceptance. He browse…
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Lawsuits on work-from-home business expenses are on the rise
In the more than two several years considering the fact that the pandemic shut down many workplaces, white-collar personnel throughout the region have been pressured to established up desks in cluttered kitchens and cramped bedrooms, reinventing how to get the job done, working day in working day out, on the fly. New social codes formulated among employees and companies, most likely modifying the nature of perform irrevocably. A different consequence of the mass relocation of workplace personnel: A increase in employee lawsuits demanding reimbursement for charges incurred while doing the job from residence throughout the pandemic. “We have tons of these in the pipeline,” explained Jacob Whitehead, an lawyer who…