On average, employees in Australia do 5.4 hours of unpaid work each week – or 280 hours of unpaid overtime a year. Reforms could introduce the right to disconnect.
On average, employees in Australia do 5.4 hours of unpaid work each week – or 280 hours of unpaid overtime a year. Reforms could introduce the right to disconnect . A phone call after you’ve left work. An email you need to check on a Sunday. A stream of texts over the weekend about a new project. Increasingly, Australia ns are seeing their work seep into their home life – and now the federal government is making moves to tighten how much bosses can contact employees out of working hours.
A suite of reforms will be debated in federal parliament this week, as the government introduces its final industrial relations reforms on the gig economy and casual employment. The Greens are pushing to insert the proposed new right to disconnect into the reforms
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