Right-to-disconnect proposal covers provision of phones and laptops, and work-life balance

This is an article about a Proposal only that has been put forward from the ACTU and shared with members to keep up to date.

Employers will need to be able to show they have "taken all reasonably practicable steps" to "eliminate or minimise the need to contact workers when they are not working", before claiming a worker has unreasonably exercised the right to disconnect, under a draft clause put to the Fair Work Commission