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Re:The Coronavirus Is Forcing Techies to Work from Home. Som... by kjakm on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:33PM (#22499563)
>> You can look at it that way. Another way of looking at it is if my company (or the government) refuses to let me access my office, I should not be obligated to work.

In that case the company should not be obligated to pay you. There's a good chance your employment contract contains a clause allowing your place of work to change at any time (within a certain distance of where it is when you join).

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Forcing Techies to Work from Home. Som... by baddox on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:45PM (#22499686)
> In that case the company should not be obligated to pay you.

Perhaps not, but in California the company is never obligated to pay you except for labor you've already done.

> There's a good chance your employment contract contains a clause allowing your place of work to change at any time (within a certain distance of where it is when you join).

In California, you don't have an employment contract period. Even if you did, I doubt the requirement to (for instance) maintain an Internet connection at your home so that you always have the ability to work from home would be an enforceable clause.

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