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Employees angry about RTO mandates have essentially no legal path to fight them


One lawyer told BI that unless there's a "protected reason under established law" like a medical circumstance, then workers have no recourse.

But remote employees who simply argue that returning to the office is an inconvenience to their lifestyle have "zero chance" to fight an RTO mandate with legal action, Zambrano said. "Unless you can assert some type of statutory rights, an employer can do whatever they want," including forcing employees back into the office full time, Zambrano said. Domenique Camacho Moran, a partner at the law firm Farrell Fritz in New York who tends to represent management in employment-related matters, told BI that most employees "do not have a choice" regarding how their job is performed.

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