House passes proposed `Telecommuting Act`
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Home Press Releases PRESS RELEASES SOURCE: Press and Public Affairs Bureau House passes proposed `Telecommuting Act` 26-May-2018, 02:57:09 PM The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill 7402 which seeks to give employees in the private sector the option to work outside the office through telecommuting. The proposed `Telecommuting Act` defines `telecommuting` as a flexible work arrangement that allows an employee in the private sector to work from an alternative workplace with the use of telecommunication and/or computer technologies. Principally authored by Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, the bill provides that an employer in the private sector may offer a telecommuting...