Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec
05 May 2021|
Implementing Right to Disconnect could be detrimental to employees, lawyers say
Employment law specialists have warned that giving employees the ‘right to disconnect’ could impact the flexible working patterns some employees have enjoyed during the pandemic, if it is not managed appropriately.
It follows growing calls from trade unions for the UK to follow in Ireland’s recent footsteps to introduce a right to disconnect clause in the forthcoming Employment Bill. Under the right to disconnect, employees in Ireland are entitled to switch off from work and not engage in digitally enabled communications outside of their normal hours.