Posted on 04/02/2024 11:37:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A bill introduced in the California legislature would help employees disconnect from their bosses after leaving work for the day.
Assembly Bill 2751, which would provide workers the “right to disconnect,” was introduced in February by Assembleymember Matt Haney of San Francisco, USA Today reported Tuesday.
“People now find themselves always on and never off,” Haney said, according to Business Insider. “The problem we have now is the gray area, where an employee is expected to respond all the time when on paper they work a 9-to-5 job.”
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They’ve ALWAYS had the right to disconnect, they were just too sheepish to exercise it. I went to a CLE a few years ago where one of the speakers said, “My clients have my cell phone number and I’m available 24 hours a day. Get used to it.” Bravo. Sierra. That’s a sign of fear.
They’ve ALWAYS had the right to disconnect, they were just too sheepish to exercise it. I went to a CLE a few years ago where one of the speakers said, “My clients have my cell phone number and I’m available 24 hours a day. Get used to it.” Bravo. Sierra. That’s a sign of fear.
Oddly, I have a personal friend/client who expected me, at 5:30pm on Good Friday, to review a standard agreement via text and get back to him Monday morning. I pointed this out to him and said no. He’s still my friend and still my client.
Why? Why unless you are in a position that you know is an on call 24/7 should you be obligated to be reachable when off the clock? Now if an employer wants that as a condition of employment that is fine but to just decide out of the blue that employees should be at your beck and call for any reason at anytime is nonsense. Firing employees because they have a life outside of work is wrong.
“A bill introduced in the California legislature would help employees disconnect from their bosses after leaving work for the day.”
Call it the ‘Lloyd Austin’ bill.
“More to the point, they just want jurisdiction over every moment of your existence.”
If you’re referring to employers who don’t respect time off then I agree.
Before I retired my job tried that. I just stopped picking up the phone.
You call me at home during my Off Time, you owe me 30 minutes of pay. Sign that into law and they won’t be getting any more calls.
Worked in Calif from Feb 1964 to Dec 2004.
Mostly office jobs, but not entirely.
NEVER encountered anything like this.
Was self-employed doing bookkeeping starting in 1980, & would SOMETIMES get a call from a client-—BUT NEVER without reason.
Really, just don’t answer. Problem solved.
Heck, Sometimes I don’t answer when my boss calls during work hours.
Actually, we’ve got a good gig. He rarely calls me, I rarely call him. I do my job and do it well. It makes both of us look good.
I’ve told him that I’m glad I don’t have a written job description because I’d never follow it anyway. My job is constantly evolving and I just do what needs to be done.
Hello...
Artificial Intelligence calling...
Sorry to disturb you at home...
Your job has been terminated...
One of my kids works at NASA on a satellite mission. He’s frequently on call and has to remain within an hour or so of the space center. One Christmas he couldn’t join us. We had a teleconference going. He was in the middle of opening a gift when the satellite called.
“gotta go.” click
Turn off the phone, like I do.
(But I’m self employed so no boss to call me. But customers sure do.)
The primary reason is GOVERNMENT has no authority to control private business.
Secondarily, salaried people are paid to get the job done. Sometimes that means working a lot more than 40 hours a week.
Gee, this isn’t going to blow up in someone’s faces.
Watch for all kinds of lawsuits claiming businesses were at fault for retaliation by not promoting, small raises, etc. ....... and, oh!, forgot the ever-present “because I’m black, Hispanic, etc.”
Might as well make the employers pay for the connect time.
That will stop the connect time fast.
anecdotally, back in the day, in IT, I carried a Pager(ok so I’m old IT - I still call it Data Processing) ) for my job and I got paid for that.
Any crisis i responded to, i got my regular pay besides.
Huh. I just put my phone on Do Not Disturb and go about my evening. Weird.
Being on call is different. You are paid a certain amount for each day on call and you have to answer you phone when on call . The problem has been at least for me that I have managers that liked to call me after hours and on weekends to do this or that or cover for the on call person who wasn’t answering their phone. I have stopped answering my phone after hours when I am not on call and my quality of life has improved and I have not been fired. It does me no good to bail someone else out.
When I did bookkeeping for small businesses, I SOMETIMES got calls away from WORK————— BUT NO ONE EVER ABUSED it.
Overtime pay for the connect pay. Then the employers will stop calling/texting you after hours.
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