“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.
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...
Turn off the phone, like I do.
(But I’m self employed so no boss to call me. But customers sure do.)
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.
California has been working overtime to create new liabilities for, and causes of action against employers for a long time, but it really accelerated with the coof. No state has done more to destroy independent small and mid-sized businesses than California, and this is only the latest example.
Big corporations will be able to implement technical solutions to avoid the inevitable litigation abuses that will seek to leverage this law, while startups and smaller companies will be put under further financial and “management attention” stress. This can’t be an accident, it’s part of the plan. The big corporations, and the establishment pols always benefit, and the independent voices, independent workers, and creative entrepreneurs get silenced and driven out.
My place of work had a voluntary call in list that they would use to call somebody in on their day off. They said no, they just went down another name.