Australian Council
The ‘Right to Disconnect’: How New Rules Are Transforming the Workplace for Australian Employees
Does Your Boss Message You on Weekends? Are you still receiving work emails after you’ve clocked out and returned home? Australian workers employed by medium and large companies can now legally ignore such intrusions into their personal lives, thanks to a new law that takes effect today, granting them the “right to disconnect.”
Australia gives millions of workers 'right to disconnect'
Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to "disconnect" on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours contact from employers, to the distress of big industry.
People can now "refuse to monitor, read, or respond to" their employers' attempts to contact them outside work hours, unless that refusal is deemed "unreasonable".