The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly altered working conditions and our relationship with the workplace. The prime example of this is the proliferation of and adjustment to remote working. It is now possible to work from anywhere in the world without ever setting foot on the employer’s premises. Remote working has drastically reshaped the employment framework and working habits – a development not without its challenges for Luxembourg’s employers, and one which affects employment, tax and immigration law alike.

Our experts Raphaëlle Carpentier and Philippe Schmit describe the post-pandemic workplace in Luxembourg.

This article first appeared on the website of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee of the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association, and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association.

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Content: 

• Employment, tax and immigration implications of working from anywhere
• Labour relations in the remote working and digital age: the impact of the pandemic
  • Remote working reimagined and reframed
  • Creation of a specific remote working regime for the financial sector
  • Cross-border commuters and remote working – what has changed?
  • What legislation applies to employment contracts?
  • What impact does remote working have on intra-group mobility?
  • Work accident or domestic accident?
• Challenges of the post-pandemic workplace
  • The right to disconnect
  •  What monitoring and surveillance rights do employers have in the era of remote working?
  • Workplace health, safety and wellbeing: employers faced with remote working
  • New forms of discrimination and differential treatment