Small business employees have to wait until 2025 to tell their boss to fuck off outside of paid hours
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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What a bloody useless article. Pages of waffle all for: "Employees from today will have the right to refuse contact outside their working hours unless that refusal is unreasonable."
Just like "may be require to work outside of Ferguson hours". That employers have abused for ages.
Pisses me off so badly. I already have the right to disconnect, it's called NOT WORKING FOR FUCKING FREE. By 'giving' us this right, they're legitimising previous rampaging over work/life balance
I think the aim for this law is to make it easier to empower employees to say ‘no’ with the risk of high fines as a deterrent. Whether it makes a difference or whether employers will simply force you to agree to contact outside of work hours via updated job contracts, is anyone’s guess.
There are so many contracts that say "you may be required to do reasonable overtime". Reasonable, paid overtime right? RIGHT?
All they had to do was ban the whole "reasonable overtime is an expected part of this role" verbiage, and actual workers would have loved that.
Like, I literally have spent the majority of my career having to work 'outside hours' (infrastructure tech. I deal with shit that basically you don't get to stop until it's fixed)
I always always get overtime or time in lieu. No exceptions. Why? Because unless i'm a volunteer fucking unpaid work is illegal