A code of practice will give employees the ‘right to disconnect’ from work and not engage in electronic communications outside of their normal hours. All employees now have the right to disconnect from work under an official code of practice drawn up by the country’s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). This measure has been included in the new code as a prescriptive instrument and as such is not wholly binding. Separately, and as part of a commitment to create family-friendly working arrangements, the government also launched an open consultation on plans to enshrine the right to request remote working in law.
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