You might have to put up with your insensitive boss deluging you with after hours work email, but French workers no longer have to. Starting January 1, France has enforced a new employment law which obliges companies packing a workforce of over 50 people to negotiate the terms of sending work emails after hours, and define the rights of employees to ignore such communication. With the implementation of this law, the country aims to tackle the problem of the so-called ‘always-on’ work culture by giving employees the ‘right to disconnect.’ While the new law stipulates that employers sort out viable ways to avoid the…
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