What a garbage misleading title from Reuters.
We always could not answer calls after work, it was never mandatory.
What this change is, is banning employers from doing it all and giving fines for those who try to do so.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Wtf do you mean allow? Are people from Australia fuckin servants or something?
Wtf is going on down under?
To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?
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.
Lemmy is called that because we have to keep saying "Lemmy read that article for you, ya lazy cunt"
- Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach the rule.
Is this the good, banter cunt or the bad, you stink cunt in this context? I can never tell.
I took it as good banter and it's a response to me. So if you're offended in my honor then you're a bit too sensitive for the internet.
I'm offended that you think I'd be offended!
Well I'm offend at your offense of my idea that you'd be offended!!
Fair enough. Cheers!
The "ya" bit makes it the bantery type. If it was "you" it'd be the stinky type
This wasn't already the case?
If you aren't getting paid extra for after-hours, don't pickup that phone!