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California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone tired of answering emails and calls from their boss after work may soon be protected by law in California.

A bill has been introduced in California legislature that would give employees the "right to disconnect" from their jobs during nonworking hours.

Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco first introduced the bill, Assembly Bill 2751 in February, which would allow employees to disconnect from communications from their employer during nonworking hours.

If passed, California would be the first state to create a "right to disconnect" for employees. Similar laws have already been enacted in 13 countries, including Australia, Argentina, Belgium, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Spain.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What is going on that this is necessary? I've never been expected to be reachable outside my working hours.

I've been on call, but those are scheduled, and I got paid if anything happened. I can only think of a very few unscheduled calls, including one where I had to call in and didn't even have to unmute, but you bet your ass I still counted that time on my timecard and got paid for it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Imagine what hellscape would need this to be a law

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Middle Managers in shambles over this

"But how will I get my rocks off to knowing I can strangle my underlings with infinite meaningless metrics‽"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

I never give my personal phone number to coworkers, and my work laptop is shut down for the night

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Me getting called four times a night by random coworkers asking for random shit:

Worker protections are necessary. Without them our employers would all treat us like Frieza did Krillin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Frieza did Krillin

Too soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's been close to 25 years...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

it'll never not be too soon

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