<p class="message_content " style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:27px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="message_content " style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:27px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif">Buried inside a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/imf-urges-further-labor-reform-to-stimulate-french-economy-1464097624" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(46,112,97)">hotly contested</a> French labor reform bill is an amendment <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-french-counterstrike-against-work-e-mail" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(46,112,97)">suggesting that companies</a> 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, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36249647" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(46,112,97)">according to the BBC</a>, would involve establishing a policy that specifies hours when employees aren’t supposed to send or receive email</p><p class="message_content " style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px"><font color="#222222" face="NotoNashkArabic, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="line-height:27px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/work-emails-france-labor-law_us_57455130e4b03ede4413515a">http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/work-emails-france-labor-law_us_57455130e4b03ede4413515a</a></span></font><br></p><br><br>-- <br>______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh" target="_blank">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br><br><br>