UNI GLOBAL UNION
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LEGISLATING A
RIGHT TO
DISCONNECT
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The purpose of this briefing is to provide
guidance to unions that want to campaign
and lobby for the introduction of a right
to disconnect in their national laws.
The previous guides published by UNI
Professionals and Managers were directed
at unions seeking to negotiate a right to
disconnect with employers without the
support of a national law. This briefing
draws upon our previous work, and the
best practices guide in particular should
be consulted in conjunction with this
briefing.
The right to disconnect refers in short to
the right of workers to disconnect from
their work and to not receive or answer
any work-related emails, calls, or messages
outside of normal working hours. It is
designed to establish boundaries around
the use of electronic communication and
to provide workers with an opportunity to
improve their work-life balance and ensure
that they receive adequate rest and family
time. It also protects workers against any
negative repercussions for disconnecting.
BACKGROUND
The right to disconnect emerged as a legal
right in France in 2016 and quickly spread
to other countries in Europe. Chile was the
first country outside Europe to legislate a
right to disconnect in 2020 in connection
with its new law on remote work during
the COVID pandemic and was followed by
Argentina a few months later.
As legal systems can vary greatly from
country to country, it is not possible to
cover all possible aspects of legalizing a
right to disconnect in this briefing. Instead,
we aim to provide guidance and inspiration
for national unions that are themselves
experts on the laws in their countries and
that wish to campaign for a legal right to
disconnect.
Note that the translations of the laws
relied upon in this briefing are not oicial
translations and should not be quoted as
such.
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FRANCE
The right to disconnect as a legal right
emerged in France, where in 2016 a law
(the so called El Khomri law) was enacted
that introduced the right to disconnect
as a topic for mandatory negotiation in
companies with more than 50 employees.
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The law built upon a 2001 French Supreme
Court ruling that “the employee is under
no obligation either to accept working
at home or to bring there his files and
working tools”,
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and a 2004 decision by
the same court that an employee cannot
be reprimanded for being unreachable
outside working hours.
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The law also followed a National
Interprofessional Agreement signed
by the social partners on 19 June 2013
called “Towards a policy to improve the
quality of life at work”.
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This agreement
included, under the heading of proper
use technology and respect for workers’
private life, the notion of protecting
workers’ “time to disconnect” – something
that had already been tested in a number
of companies in France at the time.
In the 2016 reform of the labor code, the
French government thus included in the
chapter “Adapting the Labor Law to the
Digital Age” a provision to amend the labor
code and introduce a right to disconnect
as a subject for mandatory negotiations
between the social partners at the
company level. By adding a new paragraph
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7, Article L2242-17 of the labor code stated
the following: “The annual negotiations
on equal opportunities between women
and men and the quality of working life
cover … The terms enabling employees
to fully exercise their right to disconnect
and the introduction by the company
of schemes regulating the use of digital
tools, with a view to ensuring compliance
with regulations governing rest and leave
periods, privacy and family life.
It further noted that if the social
partners cannot reach an agreement,
an employer may draw up a charter,
following consultations with the Works
Council or, if such does not exist, with
sta representatives. Such charter shall
define the terms for exercising the right
to disconnect while also providing for the
implementation of training and awareness-
raising measures relating to the reasonable
use of digital tools. Such measures
shall target employees, supervisors and
management.
SPAIN
Following the adoption of the French law,
the Spanish government in 2017 began
studying the possibility of securing a right
to disconnect in Spanish law as well. On 6
December 2018, the government adopted
the new Data Protection Act, which
transposed the 2016 European Union
(EU) General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) into Spanish law but which also
introduced a new set of digital rights for
both citizens and employees.
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Article 88
thus stipulates that workers in both the
private and public sectors shall have a
right to disconnect in order to ensure
respect for their periods of rest, leave, and
holidays, as well as for their personal and
family privacy.
The law does specify, however, that the
enjoyment of the right to disconnect
must take into account the nature of the
employment relationship in question,
and that the right may be flexible or even
inapplicable if the employment relationship
does not allow it.
Like the French law, the Data Protection
Act prescribes a central role for the social
partners in negotiating the details of
the right to disconnect. If there are no
unions present, it shall instead be agreed
between the company and the worker
representatives. The employer shall then
prepare an internal policy for all sta,
including sta in managerial positions,
outlining the proper exercise of the right
to disconnect and ensuring that sta
receive training on the reasonable use
of technology to avoid the risks of digital
fatigue. The law specifically notes that
workers who work remotely or from their
homes either occasionally or regularly
shall also enjoy the right to disconnect.
ITALY
A debate about the right to disconnect
also ensued in Italy in 2016 following the
French example. Two bills were introduced
in the Italian Senate to regulate this right,
with Bill No 2229 explicitly proposing
that workers have the right to disconnect
from technological devices and from
online platforms without suering any
consequences with regard to their labor
relationship or compensation. On 14 June
2017, the right to disconnect was eventually
codified into law when Law No. 81/2017 on
“Smart Working” was enacted to update
the countrys outdated legislation on
teleworking and to promote and provide
a framework for new forms of remote
working and facilitate workers’ work-life
balance.
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“Smart work” is in Italy defined as work
with no precise constraints in terms of
working hours or place of work. Work
can thus be done partly from home or
Workers in both the private and
public sectors shall have a right
to disconnect in order to ensure
respect for their periods of rest,
leave, and holidays, as well as for
their personal and family privacy.
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from another place of work as long as
it is suitable for performing the job. The
employer and the employee must agree
in writing about the terms and conditions
of “smart working”, which must include
provisions about the employee’s rest
periods as well as the technical and
organizational measures necessary to
ensure the employee’s right to disconnect.
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The main dierence between the Italian
law and those of France and Spain is
that in Italy, the right to disconnect is
limited to workers performing “smart
work” and does not apply generally to
the broader workforce. “Smart working”
has increased since the passing of the
law, however: Whereas an estimated
250,000 Italian workers worked flexibly in
October 2016,
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as of October 2019 more
than 570,000 workers benefited from this
form of working.
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The Italian government
also made a number of references to
smart working” in decrees issued in 2020
in connection with the COVID-19 crisis
to broadly enable and promote remote
working during the pandemic.
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BELGIUM
The issue of disconnection in Belgium is
covered in a law of 26 March 2018 called
the “Act regarding the strengthening of
economic growth and social cohesion”,
which was introduced as part of a series
of initiatives to reform Belgian labor law.
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The act made it mandatory for employers
with more than 50 employees to discuss
the issue of disconnection and the use of
digital tools with the workplace health and
safety committee. The stated purpose of
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these provisions was to ensure respect for
employees’ periods of rest, holidays, and
leave, and their balance between work and
private life.
Employees in Belgium thus have a right to
discuss issues of disconnection with their
employers, but they do not have a right to
disconnect in the strict sense of the term.
The employer can adopt disconnection
policies after consulting with the
committee but is not required to do so. The
law also does not prescribe how often the
employer should meet with the committee
but notes that it should do so regularly and
whenever there are significant changes in
the company, and whenever the committee
asks for it. In case there is no health and
safety committee in place, the trade union
delegation can play this role instead.
CHILE
Chile became the first country outside
Europe to legislate a right to disconnect
when on 26 March 2020 it adopted Law
21.220 to amend the labor code with a
new chapter on remote working and
teleworking.
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The timing of the law
coincided with the COVID-19 crisis in the
country and eorts to limit the spread
of the virus, although draft legislation on
the right to disconnect had already been
proposed at the end of 2018 and approved
by the lower house of Congress in April
2019.
While the draft legislation sought to extend
the right to disconnect broadly to workers
in both the public and the private sector
to safeguard their periods of rest, leave,
and holidays, as well as their personal and
family privacy, Law 21.220 only deals with
the right in the context of remote work –
like the Italian law on smart working.
The law stipulates that an employer and
an employee can make an agreement for
flexible work arrangements, where the
employee can carry out their work partially
or completely from a dierent location
than the companys premises. They can
also agree on flexible working hours for
the employee, while taking into account
the general stipulations on working hours
in the labor code, including a minimum
12 hours of consecutive rest between
periods of work. In this context, the time of
disconnection shall also be agreed upon.
ARGENTINA
Following in the footsteps of Chile
but building upon years of eorts and
proposals to regulate remote working
in the country, the Argentinian Senate
adopted on 30 July 2020 law 27.555
on telework.
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Article 5 of the new law
introduces a right to disconnect, noting
that remote workers have a right to
disconnect from ICT-tools outside of their
working day and during holidays. The
Argentinian law is the first law globally
with specific language to protect workers
from sanctions for exercising their right to
disconnect. It further stipulates that the
employer cannot communicate with or ask
their employees to perform tasks outside
of normal working hours.
The law was published in the oicial
government bulletin on 14 August but
will only be eective 90 days after the
end of the restrictions put in place by the
Argentinian government in March 2020
to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Prior to the
adoption of the law on telework, a draft law
(S723/2020) had been introduced in the
Senate to establish a right to disconnect
for all workers in Argentina.
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The draft
included several important elements of a
comprehensive right to disconnect, such
as a prohibition of sanctions and premiums
for workers who disconnect and stay
connected, respectively, a reference to the
need for the social partners to negotiate
the modalities of the right to disconnect,
and the notion of a suspension of a right
to disconnect only in case of emergencies
or essential situations that have been
previously defined.
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PHILIPPINES
In January 2017 a bill was submitted to
the Philippine House of Representatives
to amend the labor code and legislate a
right to disconnect in the country.
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The
bill would have expanded the definition
of working hours to include time spent
reading and responding to work-related
communications after working hours, and
would have clarified that an employee
shall not be “reprimanded, punished, or
otherwise subjected to disciplinary action
if he or she disregards a work-related
communication after work-hours”. It would
further have added an obligation on the
employer to establish the hours when
employees are not supposed to send or
answer work-related communication.
Following the submission of the bill, it
was referred to the Committee on Labor
and Employment where the matter has
oicially been pending since 17 January
2017. Later that same month, however,
the Secretary of the Department of Labor
and Employment did issue a statement
saying that it is up to the employee to
decide whether to respond to work-related
messages from their employers after
oice hours. He noted that “Answering or
ignoring texts and emails from employers
after working hours is a voluntary
engagement of an employee, and they
are not obliged to respond. The right to
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disconnect is a choice of an employee.
The Secretary added that completely
disconnecting would not apply for certain
jobs, and that the employers must be the
ones to implement a policy in accordance
with the standards of the labor code, which
will benefit both parties.
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CANADA
There have been two separate initiatives in
Canada to regulate a right to disconnect.
At the federal level – which covers
federally-regulated workplaces in sectors
such as transportation, banking, and
telecommunications and which includes
around 6% of the Canadian workforce
– and at the provincial level in Quebec.
In Quebec, Bill 1097 was introduced in
the National Assembly in March 2018
to “ensure that employee rest periods
are respected by requiring employers
to adopt an after-hours disconnection
policy.
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Under this policy, employers
would have had to determine the weekly
periods when employees were entitled
to disconnect from all work-related
communication, and would also have had
to provide for a protocol for the use of
communication tools after hours. The bill
also proposed minimum and maximum
fines for employers who failed to produce
either a workplace disconnection policy
or an annual status report. The bill only
progressed to a first reading and was
abandoned in June 2018.
The federal government in 2018 issued
a report from a year-long consultation
into modernizing the federal labor code
in which the right to disconnect was
highlighted as a prominent issue. The
topic was further investigated by an
Expert Panel on Modern Federal Labour
Standards, which was appointed by the
Canadian government in February 2019.
The Panel published its findings in June
the same year and recommended that
there not be a statutory right to disconnect
as it would “currently be diicult to
operationalize and enforce.” The Panel
instead recommended that employers
covered by the labor code consult with
their employees or their representatives
and issue policy statements on the topic of
disconnection.
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USA
In March 2018, Bill 0726-2018 was
submitted to the New York City Council to
amend the citys legislation and introduce
a right to disconnect.
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The bill would make
it illegal for private sector employers with
more than 10 employees to require their
workers to stay connected to work after
their formal working day ends, except
in cases of emergency. It would further
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require these employers to adopt a written
policy regarding the use of electronic
communication tools outside of normal
working hours, and would prohibit any
retaliation or threat of retaliation against
an employee exercising or attempting
to exercise their right to disconnect. It
would also establish a complaints system
for workers and a system of supervision
for the New York City Department of
Consumer Aairs
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tasked with enforcing
the law. The bill would also provide for
fines for employers who breach the law.
The first hearing of the bill took place
in January 2019 in the Committee on
Consumer Aairs and Business Licensing.
The response to the bill was mixed, and
the bill has since not moved in the citys
legislative process.
INDIA
In December 2018, a bill to regulate the
right to disconnect was also introduced
in the Indian Parliaments lower house.
Called “The Right to Disconnect Bill”, it
aims to recognize the right to disconnect
as a way to reduce stress and to ease
tensions between employees’ personal
and professional lives.
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It includes
elements of (draft) bills seen elsewhere,
like protection against retaliation if an
employee does not answer calls after
the formal working day ends, and the
requirement to negotiate with employees
and unions about the terms and conditions
of disconnection. It also includes some
novel ideas: local governments would need
to provide counseling services to help
workers maintain work-life balance and to
establish “digital detox centers” to this end
as well. The bill also foresees a penalty of
1% of total company payroll if an employer
breaches the law.
In India, bills introduced by Members of
Parliament are called “Private Members’
Bills” – as opposed to bills introduced
by the government. While no private
members’ bill has become law since 1970,
these bills have influenced governments
and subsequent legislation on important
issues and are thus not without
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Local governments would need
to provide counseling services to
help workers maintain work-life
balance and to establish ‘digital
detox centers’.
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ANALYSIS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
There is no question that the French law
has been a great catalyst for initiatives
around the world to legislate a right to
disconnect, as all the laws and proposals
outlined above draw upon it to some
extent. In this section we analyze the
dierent laws and proposals to develop a
set of recommendations that can be relied
upon when seeking to introduce a right to
disconnect in national legislation.
PRESCRIBE A ROLE FOR
SOCIAL PARTNERS
Social partners play a central role
in defining the modalities (practical
details) of right to disconnect policies
in the workplace, and national laws
should necessarily prescribe a role for
them in further negotiating the right to
disconnect. The French and Belgian laws
only mention the right to disconnect as
a topic for negotiations between unions
and employers without further stipulating
what the right entails. This can be feasible
in countries with high union density and
collective bargaining coverage, but it
would be advisable to include in national
laws some basic principles – like the
prohibition against penalizing workers who
disconnect – and define a minimum right
that can then be expanded upon by the
social partners.
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BE EXPLICIT
While it is possible to derive a right to
disconnect from existing working time
legislation (see below),
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and while
dierent language can be used to describe
the issue of disconnection and the need for
work-life balance, the right to disconnect
should ideally be explicitly recognized as
a right and so embedded in national law.
While the right existed in French case law
before 2016, it was only after the adoption
of the new law and the specific reference
to a right to disconnect that the right was
broadly recognized and bargained into
collective agreements.
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DEFINE THE RIGHT
It is advisable to provide a brief explanation
of the right to disconnect and highlight
its most important principles in law. Chief
of these is the protection of workers
who exercise their right to disconnect, in
that they should not suer any negative
consequences for disconnecting. It
could also be worth mentioning that no
favorable treatment should be aorded to
workers who are constantly connected, in
order to ensure non-discrimination in the
workplace. Protection against retaliation
is only explicitly stated in the Argentinian
law (it was also included in the draft bills
in the Philippines, India, and USA), but it is
mentioned in many collective agreements
as a foundational principle of the right to
disconnect. It may also be pertinent to
note that the right to disconnect does not
mean an obligation to disconnect, and
that exceptions to the right to disconnect
rule can be provided for in essential or
emergency situations – as long as these
have been previously defined.
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PROVIDE A RATIONALE
Most of the laws that recognize a right to
disconnect also mention that the purpose
of the law is to ensure respect for workers’
periods of rest, leave, and holidays, as well
as for their personal and family life. The
benefit of including specific statements
like this in the law is that it draws attention
to the arenas that need to be protected
(daily rest periods; dierent forms of leave,
including medical leave; and holidays and
vacations) and highlight that the impact
of constant connection is not only on
workers’ private lives, but on their family
lives as well.
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ANCHOR IN EXISTING
LEGISLATION
There are dierent options for linking
the right to disconnect to other existing
legal rights. The first option is to make the
obvious link to working time, as provisions
on working and rest times exist in most,
if not all, legislations. Working time
legislation normally defines what counts
as work and specifies maximum working
hours and minimum daily and weekly rest
periods. One benefit of discussing the
right to disconnect within this framework
is that it draws attention to the fact that
checking emails or messages after the
formal working day ends is actually work
and should be counted as such. Thus, if
workers check their emails in the evening
then that would count as overtime or
on-call time and they would be entitled to
compensation.
A second option is to link disconnection to
remote work, as in the case of the Italian,
Chilean, and Argentinian laws. Having a
right to disconnect when working remotely
is important, as the risk of a blurring
between private time and working time is
significant. This was also the experience
of many during the COVID-19 crisis when
millions were forced to work from home.
However, the right to disconnect should
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not be limited only to workers who work
remotely; it is equally important that
those who work in a traditional oice
environment and attend to electronic
communications at home in the evening or
during weekends are covered by the right
to disconnect.
A third option is to treat the right to
disconnect as part of a set of digital rights,
which is the case in Spain. As mentioned
above, Spain’s 2018 Data Protection Act
built upon the GDPR and introduced
a range of rights for both citizens and
employees. While this approached worked
in Spain as part of their comprehensive
reform of digital rights, it may not be as
easy to implement elsewhere, in particular
outside the realm of the EUs GDPR.
A fourth and more exploratory option
would be to link disconnection to
occupational safety and health laws
and the employer obligations to provide
workplaces free from hazards. Stress
caused by being constantly connected or
on-call and not being able to disconnect,
rest, and recover can have serious
implications for a worker’s physical and
mental health, and can inter alia lead
to anxiety, depression, and burnout.
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Employer disconnection policies and
practices could thus be one way to
limit their workers’ exposure to these
occupational hazards.
IMPLICATE ALL
EMPLOYEES
The right to disconnect should be broadly
provided to all workers regardless of their
employment status (full-time/part-time/
gig/self-employed), sector of work (public/
private), employment type (managerial/
non-managerial), work location (oice/
remote), etc. Managers may not always
qualify for overtime compensation
according to national laws, but it is
important that the other principles of
the right to disconnect apply to them as
well. Managers also play a key role in the
implementation of disconnection policies
in the workplace as they can set good
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examples for their teams, and are explicitly
mentioned in the French and Spanish laws.
Furthermore, considering the importance
of training with regard to the use of digital
tools and disconnection, it could be worth
including language in the national law on
this, like in the French and Spanish cases.
WHAT ABOUT REMEDIES?
The US proposal envisioned the
setting up of a complaints procedure
for workers whose right to disconnect
had been breached by their employer.
Complaints procedures have also figured
in other proposals, and it could be worth
investigating whether that would be
feasible in another country, depending on
its administrative and legal structures as
well as the role and strength of its trade
unions.
The laws that currently prescribe a
right to disconnect do not contain such
mechanisms, nor do they specify fines
for employers that violate the right. The
draft laws in India, Quebec, and the US
included explicit penalties for employer
violations, but again these proposals have
not become law.
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1 “Law on work, the modernization of social
dialogue, and the safeguarding of career
paths”, aka. the “El Khomri Act, Law 2016-1088
of 8 August 2016. The law entered into force
on 1 January 2017. https://www.legifrance.
gouv.fr/aichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEX-
T000032983213&categorieLien=id
2 Labor Chamber of the Cour de Cassation, 2
October 2001, No. 99-42.727
3 Labor Chamber of the Cour de Cassation, 17
February 2004, No. 01-45.889
4 Accord national interprofessionnel du 19 juin
2013 “Qualité de vie au travail”. https://www.
journal-oiciel.gouv.fr/publications/bocc/
pdf/2013/0041/boc_20130041_0000_0011.pdf
5 Ley Orgánica 3/2018, “Protección de Datos
Personales y garantía de los derechos
digitales”, 5.12.2018. https://www.boe.es/
eli/es/lo/2018/12/05/3#:~:text=Ley%20
Org%C3%A1nica%203%2F2018%2C%20
de,%C2%AB%20BOE%20%C2%BB%20
n%C3%BAm
6 Law No. 81 of 22 May 2017. https://www.
gazzettauiciale.it/eli/id/2017/06/13/17G00096/
sg
7 Ibid., art. 19
8 https://www.corporatelivewire.com/top-story.
html?id=the-new-regulation-on-smart-work-
ing-in-italy
9 https://www.warwicklegal.com/news/326/
italy-smart-working-agile-performing-and-in-
creasing
10 Most notably decree 34/2020. It should be
noted, however, that the form of remote work
promoted by the government did not have the
same characteristics of true ”smart working”,
which entails a large degree of flexibility on the
part of the employee as to the place and hours
to work
11 Loi du 26 mars 2018 relative au renforcement
de la croissance économique et de la cohésion
sociale. https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/
cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&table_
name=loi&cn=2018032601
12 Ley 21.220 Modifica el código del trabajo en
materia de trabajo a distancia, 26.3.2020.
https://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNor-
ma=1143741
13 https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/
primera/233626/20200814
14 https://www.senado.gob.ar/parlamentario/
comisiones/verExp/723.20/S/PL
15 House Bill No. 4721 ”An act granting employees
the right to disconnect from work-related elec-
tronic communications after work hours”. http://
www.congress.gov.ph/legisdocs/basic_17/
HB04721.pdf
16 https://www.manilatimes.net/2017/02/01/
news/latest-stories/workers-right-discon-
nect-dole/310057/
17 Bill 1097 ”Right-to-Disconnect Act. http://www.
assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/pro-
jets-loi/projet-loi-1097-41-1.html?appelant=MC
18 Report of the Expert Panel on Modern Fed-
eral Labour Standards, June 2019, Chapter
4 ”Disconnecting from work-related e-com-
munications outside of work hours”. https://
www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-devel-
opment/services/labour-standards/reports/
expert-panel-final.html
19 Bill 0726-2018 ”A Local Law to amend the New
York city charter and the administrative code
of the city of New York, in relation to private
employees disconnecting from electronic
communications during non-work hours”, March
2018. https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/View.
ashx?M=F&ID=6150433&GUID=F941D199-
B386-40A4-9827-9A813B0FABBB
20 Now called the Department of Consumer and
Worker Protection
21 Bill No. 211 of 2018 ”The Right to Disconnect
Bill, 2018”. http://164.100.24.219/billstexts/LSBill-
Texts/AsIntroduced/2317as.pdf
22 This has been the approach in Germany, where
many collective agreements that include the
right to disconnect have been signed despite
German legislation not specifically providing for
a right to disconnect
23 See e.g. William J. Becker, Liuba Belkin, Sarah
Tuskey, “Killing me softly: Electronic communi-
cations monitoring and employee and spouse
well-being”, Academy of Management Proceed-
ings, 2018 (1)
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