The Senate is debating a bill to ban emails, texts and calls outside of work hours and a total of at least 12 hours of rest from such communications between shifts.
To date, only the law on smart working regulates this area through the possibility of providing for an agreement that can be stipulated between employer and employee, but there is no law that protects the right to disconnection.
The proposed law will concern the companies with at least fifteen employees and will also involve self-employed workers and those who have not signed a National Contract that provides for the right to disconnect.
From the text of the law, in article 3 it is possible to read that "the worker has the right not to receive communications from the employer or from the personnel invested with managerial duties towards the worker himself outside of the ordinary working hours provided for by the applied employment contract and, in any case, for a minimum period of twelve hours from the end of the work shift".
Marcus Barbatus
Article published on 14 January 2025 - 18:52
