The right to disconnect is coming to Australia. What does this mean for you?
The right to disconnect is coming to Australia. What does this mean for you?
New laws will soon give employees a legal right to ignore work-related communication outside their standard working hours.
Right to disconnect laws were first introduced in France in 2017... One critic at the time said: " the French may quickly discover that their most productive workers are routine “lawbreakers” who stay connected during off-hours." ... A 2023 Australia Institute study estimated Australian workers on average were doing an extra 5.4 hours of unpaid work per week. ... equates to an extra 281 hours’ unpaid work per year. This is estimated to be costing workers an average of AU$11,055 annually.
For employers, productive is just a polite synonym for exploited.
We have always had that here. They have to pay you to be on call in Germany.
We might have that here, but half the people I know work jobs that still expect them to be on call all the time and would get in serious trouble if they turned of their phones during busy periods. So while yes, in theory it’s great, our toxic work culture seems to cancel it out quite well.
I always tell those guys they should quit it or sue the fuck out of those assholes, but no one ever does -.-
It means I want to move to Australia
Hopefully it means disconnection.