Heavy-handed legislative or one-size-fits-all approaches are not merited
Some call them scourge of modern working life: the email from the boss landing in the inbox at 10pm, or the pinging of WhatsApp group messages long after normal office hours. Should employees be legally entitled to switch off? Britain’s new Labour government is committed to introducing a “right to disconnect”, as part of a broader package of reforms to workers’ rights, following more than a dozen countries that have introduced safeguards.
What is important is preventing bullying or unfair treatment at all levels — and, above all, safeguarding those less well paid or less able to protect themselves against abuses. Employers should not be able to utilise repeated out-of-hours communications demanding responses or specific actions from staff as a way of, in effect, forcing them to work extra hours while skirting overtime rules and pay.
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