Remote work, child care, mask enforcement: COVID-19 is re-writing employment law

Taneasha Newsome already felt like she was being passed over for promotions and raises, even as she absorbed more responsibilities over the past nine years as an associate researcher for Axos Bank.

Then coronoavirus struck.

Suddenly, Newsome, a Black single mother, was forced to care for her four children, including two with special needs, while working out of her apartment. The cost of full-time childcare would have exceeded her wages, she claimed. Leaving them with her grandmother, as she had before the pandemic, was no longer an option.

Like other employees of the online company headquartered in La Jolla, Newsome was monitored remotely by a productivity program. But she claimed the program was not able to properly measure the type of work she performed, and it underreported her work hours.

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