Category: disconnect
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Australia follows France with ‘right to disconnect’ law for workers
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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…
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Will Israel ever provide employees with right to disconnect?
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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…