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in advance of any temporary or permanent change of domicile to the agreed workspace is maintained, but now the basic elements of the writing are established: “Date of elaboration; the name of the worker in the modality of Telework that elaborates the writing; the date of occurrence, and the description of the change of domicile”.

• The concept of work accident is expanded to include those that occur during the commute to/ between the agreed spaces or to the work center during or because of work.

NOM-037 will retain the verification mechanism to corroborate the safety and health conditions of the space where remote work will be performed, as well as the obligation of employers to have a telework policy. Although the modifications make the implementation more flexible by changing concepts and the wording of some points.

The NOM of Telework is the instrument that will regulate the safety and health conditions in this type of employment, its objective is to avoid illnesses and accidents among the people who perform their activities under this figure.

“The elementary conditions and specific preventive measures to be adopted in the workplaces determined by common agreement between employers and teleworkers, in order to prevent events that endanger their physical integrity, life and health through a regulation on safety and health at work in line with technological advances and with a preventive approach to occupational diseases and accidents at work,” said the STPS in the draft submitted for public consultation in July last year.

The final version of NOM-037 maintains the possibility for the Safety and Hygiene Commission to visit the workspace proposed by the worker to verify the conditions, as long as the employee’s consent is obtained. Otherwise, the alternative will be the self-evaluation that the remote worker can do.