Category: disconnect

  • Australia follows France with ‘right to disconnect’ law for workers

    Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to “disconnect” on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours contact from employers, causing major industry distress. People can now “refuse to monitor, read or respond” to employers’ attempts to contact them outside of working hours – unless such refusal is deemed…

  • Will Israel ever provide employees with right to disconnect?

    Will Israel ever provide employees with right to disconnect?

    Canada plans to enshrine the “right to disconnect” in the 2024 Budget Act — the right to refuse to contact the president after business hours. The importance is that employees will have the right not to perform job-related tasks, outside working hours. This law will only affect 500,000 Canadian employees…