Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses
Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses
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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 at all and giving fines for those who try to do so.
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To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?
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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.
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Is this the good, banter cunt or the bad, you stink cunt in this context? I can never tell.
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I mean you spend the time to read the article already, why not help someone else save that time?
Also, calling someone lazy is ableist, please don't do that, you don't know another person's circumstances or if that's a trigger...
Edit: For anyone interested to know more about ableism or why laziness is an ableist concept:
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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.
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This wasn't already the case?
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Wtf do you mean allow? Are people from Australia fuckin servants or something?
Wtf is going on down under?
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I thought Aussies just lay about "in the bush" playing didgeridoo and hugging koalas cos it's too hot? Like Spanish siesta on steroids.
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I have it on good authority that Drop Bears routinely steal phones after 5pm and uncharacteristically return them by 8am the next morning.
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Good Drop Bear, here's a nice juicy tourist.
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If you aren't getting paid extra for after-hours, don't pickup that phone!