Government tweaks industrial relations laws to ensure employers don't face criminal penalties over the right to disconnect

2024-02-11 8,710

The government says it will try to tweak its own industrial relations laws to ensure employers don't face criminal penalties over the right to disconnect. Yesterday, the senate passed legislation which gives workers the right not to respond to work requests outside of work hours. The laws inadvertently legislated criminal penalties for employers that don't follow the rules.