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CLAIMANT PURCHASED OFFICE FURNITURE AFTER HE WAS HIRED TO WORK FROM HOME AND WAS INJURED CARRYING THE FURNITURE TO HIS HOME OFFICE; THE WORKER’S COMPENSATION BOARD SHOULD NOT HAVE ANALYZED THE CASE UNDER A RIGID NEW STANDARD FOR EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM HOME; MATTER REMITTED FOR APPLICATION OF THE LONG-ESTABLISHED STANDARD (THIRD DEPT). ​

The Third Department, reversing the denial of benefits and remitting the matter to the Workers’ Compensation Board, determined claimant, who was hired to work from home, may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits stemming from moving boxes during claimant’s lunch hour. Claimant was told by his employer the company would not pay for office furniture. Claimant purchased the office furniture and was injured when carrying the boxes upstairs to his home office. The court addressed how workers’ compensation principles should be applied to working from home:

… [T]he Board eschewed the foregoing principles in favor of a rigid new standard for employees working from home under which injuries are only compensable if occurring during regular work hours and while the employee is actively engaged in work duties as opposed to, for example, taking a short break or using the bathroom. This novel standard is unsupported by precedent, is inconsistent with “the remedial nature of the Workers’ Compensation Law” and cannot be countenanced … . A “regular pattern of work at home” renders the employee’s residence “a place of employment” as much as any traditional workplace maintained by the employer … . As a result, inasmuch as the Board determined that claimant was injured during his regular work shift … , the compensability of his injury should have been determined using the long-established standard.

We accordingly remit for the Board to apply that standard and determine whether claimant, when moving the boxes, was engaged in a “purely personal” activity that was not “reasonable and sufficiently work related under the circumstances” … . Matter of Capraro v Matrix Absence Mgt., 2020 NY Slip Op 06000, Third Dept 10-22-20

 

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