[kictanet] The right to disconnect: France seeks to put legislation to prevent work burnout

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Checking your work email on a weekend or a holiday? As part of planned
labor reforms, new legislation in France would encourage companies to
create policies to help their employees disconnect from the office.

Buried inside a hotly contested
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/imf-urges-further-labor-reform-to-stimulate-french-economy-1464097624>
French labor reform bill is an amendment suggesting that companies
<http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-french-counterstrike-against-work-e-mail>
of 50 or more employees draft formal policies to limit the spillover of
work, specifically as it’s related to “digital technology,” into the
private lives of employees. This, according to the BBC
<http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36249647>, would involve establishing a
policy that specifies hours when employees aren’t supposed to send or
receive email

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/work-emails-france-labor-law_us_57455130e4b03ede4413515a


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