{"id":6260,"date":"2017-01-02T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pakorbit.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:58:50","slug":"french-workers-get-legal-right-ignore-emails-work-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/2017\/01\/french-workers-get-legal-right-ignore-emails-work-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"French Workers Get the Legal Right To Ignore Emails After Work Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new year has brought some good news for French workers as now they get the \u201cright to disconnect\u201d after working hours. It means that the workers can ignore work related emails, messages and phone calls after the official working hours have ended.<\/p>\n

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The Guardian reports<\/a>\u00a0that the new law\u00a0obliges organizations with more than 50 workers to start negotiations in order to define the rights of employees to ignore their electronic devices.<\/p>\n

Trade unions in France have long demanded action to tackle the \u201calways-on\u201d work culture. Since it leads to a surge in usually unpaid overtime.<\/p>\n

Too Much Work is Bad:<\/h4>\n

A research report from Eleas says that more than a third of French workers use their devices to perform work tasks after hours.<\/p>\n

This trend is to be\u00a0blamed for spoiling healthy sleeping habits and causing harm\u00a0to emotional well-being of workers.<\/p>\n

The new law requires companies to negotiate with employees to agree on their rights to switch off and ways they can reduce the intrusion in their private lives.<\/p>\n

If such a\u00a0deal cannot be reached, the company must publish a charter. That\u00a0would make explicit the demands on, and rights of, employees out-of-hours.<\/p>\n

However, the \u201cright to disconnect\u201d doesn\u2019t impose any penalties for companies that fail to reach such agreement with workers.<\/p>\n

It merits mentioning here that some years back, German car maker Volkswagen also agreed to deactivate its workers BlackBerrys after hours to avoid troubling them with work emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new year has brought some good news for French workers as now they get the \u201cright to disconnect\u201d after working hours. It means that the workers can ignore work related emails, messages and phone calls after the official working hours have ended. The Guardian reports\u00a0that the new law\u00a0obliges organizations with more than 50 workers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1153,7396,7402,7398,7397,7395,7401,7404,7405,7394,7399,7400,7406,7403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}