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Our labour laws are a lot better than the US, but there are some gaps.
One of those gaps is out-of-hours work calls/emails: there’s currently no explicit protection against your employer insisting you make yourself available.
Lots of unionised workplaces have a ‘right to disconnect’ clause in the EBA, but if you don’t have an EBA, you’re on your own.
Our labour laws are a lot better than the US, but there are some gaps.
One of those gaps is out-of-hours work calls/emails: there’s currently no explicit protection against your employer insisting you make yourself available.
Lots of unionised workplaces have a ‘right to disconnect’ clause in the EBA, but if you don’t have an EBA, you’re on your own.
This legislation aims to fix that.