EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
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#2In other news, EU pushes to build a giant bikeshed.
Re: EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
#3On the one hand you could say those EU guys are all morons. And many indeed are.
But on the other, if we were to think about what this means, it's socialism - BNI, aka the right to work from home, be paid the same as real workers, and at the same time not even be reachable.
So it's a handful of globalist manipulators leading a pack of useful idiots.
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#4Love this. I've increasingly seen and heard employers trying to take advantage of the current situation and we need more regulation and protection for workers. People are being asked to do extra and too afraid to speak out especially with so many companies making redundancies.
One area of focus for me is sickness and working from home. Sick days should be about rest and recovering both physically and mentally. Often see people working through while they aren't fully capable mentally but are too afraid to say so. We need measures like this ASAP.
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#5In other news, EU pushes to build a giant bikeshed.
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Re: EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
#6> The new legislation, which is expected to be passed by Germany's Bundestag parliament, would allow workers to write off €5 ($6) per day to offset extra heating and electricity costs.
That's not feasible or scalable. As it is a balance, they will give you this but will take out somewhere else (less yearly increase and so on).
It's almost a disservice...
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#7> The right to disconnect refers to a worker’s right to be able to disengage from work and refrain from engaging in work-related electronic communications, such as emails or other messages, during non-work hours.[1]
What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"?
I'm really frustrated with how the term "right" has been watered down. Rights used to be innate freedoms of the utmost importance, something worth dying for. Now it's just shorthand for some benefit the government provides, or something that the government allows you to do (often with lots of stipulations). Rights are no longer something innate to all humans, they are something that the government gives to you when it wants.
[1]https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/indust...
Re: EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
#8> The right to disconnect refers to a worker’s right to be able to disengage from work and refrain from engaging in work-related electronic communications, such as emails or other messages, during non-work hours.[1] What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"? I'm really frustrated with how the term "right" has been wate…
>What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"?
Have you seen amazon's warehouse work conditions?
Re: EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
#9> The right to disconnect refers to a worker’s right to be able to disengage from work and refrain from engaging in work-related electronic communications, such as emails or other messages, during non-work hours.[1] What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"? I'm really frustrated with how the term "right" has been wate…
>What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"? Have you seen amazon's warehouse work conditions?
Every regulation like this is a band-aid, and more band-aids will just make the EU even more quintessentially the EU.
If the governance focused on restoring negotiating power to workers, you wouldn't need to write to your MP to go to the toilet.
Re: EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home
#10> The right to disconnect refers to a worker’s right to be able to disengage from work and refrain from engaging in work-related electronic communications, such as emails or other messages, during non-work hours.[1] What does that even mean? Is the EU also going to come out with the "Right to breathe" and the "Right to go to the bathroom when you need to"? I'm really frustrated with how the term "right" has been wate…
It's called "Worker's Rights" after all:
https://globalnaps.org/issue/workers-rights/
I'd put that under "Safe and healthy working conditions" and "reasonable limitation of working hours".