And welcome back to The Factor
on sensor. There's still a push
for workers to ditch working
from home and to return to the
office. This comes as 90% of
those return to office mandates
by the end of the year. Are
these mandates being disguised
as soft layoffs? Joining us to
talk about it, employment
attorney Alphonso Kennard and
Marie, who has been running a
allegedly working from home. So
tell me. So the pandemic is far
is over. It is. It is. It is.
And you're still working from
home? I have still been working
from home. I am blessed is the
way that I describe it. God
Yeah. God has blessed me. It's
not just home. It's you know,
the nail shop, the hair shop,
get to work from everywhere that
my computer, it goes in my bag
and I just go, But my job don't
know about all that, you know?
You know what I mean? Do you
ever feel guilty, though, Like
you're getting away with
something guilty? I'm doing my
job or I'm taking this laptop
with me everywhere I go.
Sometimes I got to pull over and
committed worker. You understand
what I'm saying? As you go on to
brunch, let me stop for our I do
this all the log in Wi-Fi
passwords at pappadeaux and all
kinds of places. If it don't
have Wi-Fi, I don't need to be
there. It's a way. That's my
motto. The nail shop ain't got
Wi-Fi. I can't get my nails done
there. So Alfonso, hearing what
these companies are saying, you
know, at the end of the year,
you're going to get some
mandates in, Is it? Well, 2024,
mandates. And so do you think
this is a way to say, look, if
you don't come back to work,
we're moving on without you?
Well, first of all, I'm
impressed that you thought
you had me on the show with
Rihanna. My wow, nice man. I'm
moving on up here. But look, at
the end of the day, these
employers that can do whatever
they want as long as it's not
discriminatory. So, you know,
some folks say, well, what the
heck, Why are you all making us
return back to work? Well
they're paying you to be there.
Not necessarily the other way
around. Right. So they have
that. They have that right to do
so unless it's illegal. What I
saw during Covid, I saw large
employers do the same type of
thing that they'd be doing now
in the sense that they took all
the old people and they took all
the disability laden folks and
said, Yeah, we have to lay you
off because of Covid, Right?
Similar here. It's not illegal
that they're going to try to
bring their folks back. It would
be illegal if they tailor it or
narrow it down to a certain
group of folks within a
protected class. But otherwise,
it because it's a term and
condition of work and they're
not necessarily laying you off.
You have the option and really
quick, I've heard people say
when they got the job, which was
near Covid, part of it would be
work from home or at least a
portion. If they say, look,
that's over with, you have
nothing to do unless you have a
contract for a term, then an
employer can change the
policies. All they've got to do
is send an email. We've changed
that only goes so far unless
it's a contract for a specific
period of time. Otherwise it's
still an at will employment
state. Isaiah So Afonso Yes,
ma'am. Because you're the man
with the master plan. You know,
trying to find ways. I just want
to make sure she works from
home, reads that question.
Listen, listen. You said a
certain class of individuals, if
I can prove that they
discriminate. And so if I if I
am allergic to like, an office
setting, do we got a case
against them? Oh, my God. I'm
just trying to say, man, they
bros. How did I go work out? I
get to work from home and y'all
now mysteriously 20, 24. Y'all
want to change back on. I don't
know how to do that. That's
discrimination. I feel your
do it for us here on The Factor
uncensored. When they call you
to go back to work, go back to
work and put your bras on too.
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