Australia Gets 'Right to Disconnect' After Working hours | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Australia Gets "Right to Disconnect" After Working hours | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Australians have gotten the “Right to Disconnect" after working hours. As part of the legislation, employees can ignore work calls, emails, and texts out of hours. The law does not ban contact after work hours but employers can't punish workers who refuse to pick up the phone. Australia has joined nearly 20 countries in protecting employee after hours. Does the Right to Disconnect work? What are the benefits and downsides? Does the Right to Disconnect harm productivity? How are Australians reacting to the legislation.

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[shaivamuthaiya]

They wont ever introduce this in India, because we are the best slaves and we ourselves promote this slavey. Last office i worked they expect people to work on Sundays and Saturdays while their Singapore office took days off.

[goodmorning]

We need that in India, I get calls even after 10PM.

[LikeDeep-qw]

And in India some people are advocating for 70 hours/week.

[kritsharma]

In India "My Country needs me so I should work 70 Hours" 😅

[rimurutempest]

As an Indian, i have worked with both Americans and Australians .
let me dare say Australians are any time pick to work with . They are passionate, empathetic and humane towards you (Yes you heard it right i know there are some racism news towards Indians but that's that ) .I love working with Australians someday from AUS region,

[RakaSabu]

Maybe someday after a few centuries hopefully, employees in India will be able to achieve the dream of getting paid for Over Time…..got to be positive thinking

[anilvaloor]

....and then enters Mr Narayana Murthy

[sharath.yohannan]

I am in Shipping Industry, and i hardly believe this will affect this industry. If the Shipping personnel decide to stop answering calls the vessel will stop movement and every single personal who complains about service, they will remain hungry.

[patrickgz]

excessive greed by corporations requires common sense to be written down as laws

[Westralia]

I am in Perth, Western Australia and got an email from HR regarding this law.In any case we don't get called except for friday night drinks or weekend

[udaykrishnaeee]

And than IT minister of Karnataka proposes for a 14hrs workday. It happens only in our India.

[shubhangbahadur]

Such an amazing law. Shows that the government really cares for its citizens.

[chiragkalra]

I live in Sydney, Australia. We don’t get any calls/ emails/ messages from our employer after 4.30-5pm whenever work ends.

Also, we’re encouraged to give time to our family so our bosses literally ask us to leave work and go home after 4.30-5pm no matter what.

[thedragonboat]

Employers may end up outsourcing work outside Australia

[paruramesh]

They got right to disconnect because somewhere Indians are covering their work hours as well😢

[nireeburr]

I went to court for this in 2017 !!! They totally ignored it.. same with having a breaks .. one is allowed to leave site.. but if u have someone with a disability and ur the only staff on. You can’t leave the client to defend for themselves.
2nd - sleep overs or 24 hour shifts . Breakfast lunch dinner.. are break times .. or to shower after sleeping..One is meant to be paid all those hours & a sleep over rate .
I said I had water and apple . They said that was enough to say a break taken. Yet where was the other staff who was watching over them..while I was taking break personal time??
NEVER HAPPENED.. coz after 12 hours it’s double time and a half along with whatever your job title or accreditation you are level of pay goes up.
South Australia disability companies are the worst for this. Staff /Workers are taken for highway robbery in this case. If u don’t answer you loose your job.
Even if u request day off they called and I had to answer or else.. and that “or else “ happened by bullying gaslighting PTSD from my last placement.. by the manager. Yes I went to industry union.
They hadn’t put this law in the work place agreement.
Which meant over 3000 staff would need to be back paid all those hours after 12 hours of work.. so u know what happened to me..
the amount was close to $200, 000 over 5 years of incorrect wages, not doing the right thing by the staff would send them broke.
Instead staff took their own lives out of fear of what might come next.
It’s disgusting how much this was covered up.
I still have every bit of evidence to prove my case.
They took blood from me to keep going till I had nothing left. Blood test done even..!
This is what the bullies / managers are like in this state in “caring job’s” ..
I’ve not worked since that rubbish.
The things I saw would make you all freak about where your children are living. Sadly homes weren’t any better .
Pot luck for good staff or company

[moniphilipjacob]

Staying in Melbourne, even without this law, My work life balance here is amazing, so much that my stress levels are low and my mental heath is awesome.

[irhtayag]

Lol yea everyone can go wow about this news.. as sumone working in IT in Sydney, let me share what happened when I spoke about this in office last week.
me to my scrum master: “ hey u know wat? U cant expect me to be working after 5 from today, the law has been passed today”.
My sm: “ oh nice so from now 9am I shud see u working. No extra school pick up time for u anymore”.
Me : “ hey thats work life balance ryt?”
Sm :” oh im sure there is no law sayin u can go pick ur kids inbetween ur work”
Me : still thinking wat to respond to such a mindset..
Let me tell u, most of the IT population now in Australia are Indians and that same Indian mindset is prevailing here.. they cannot say anything to a local white here but if u r an Indian, u face the same shit that u face in India..the locals also feel thats how their company grows.. so we are scapegoats everywhere.. the Indian managers and higher officials changed the whole work culture in this country also.. the only plus point in this country is nobody judges u by what work u do.. so if I want to tell them all to go to hell and leave my job( which I’m so tempted to do), I still can go work anywhere else and survive here as nobody judges you by what u work. U still have the money n still have ur life..

[harshithvenkat]

We have generational slavery. Doesn't work here

[andis]

Same problem is US, got called for production issue at night and weekend, and even national holiday