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Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)

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[–] thesystemisdown 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I doubt not taking the call is what the paperwork would reflect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, here in the US almost every state has "at will" employment, so any protections could really be circumvented by just firing a worker for whatever other reason (or no reason at all) they want. Hopefully labor has it better in the land down under.