France Has Made It A Crime For Your Boss To Email You After Work Hours

France Has Made It A Crime For Your Boss To Email You After Work Hours

If it were in Nigeria, prison go full! Lol…

Most Nigerian bosses do not respect the after work hours policy they set, especially when it comes to emails. But, in France Prison is the case, a new law has been passed that makes it  illegal for your employer to email you after working hours, this law was made under “The right to disconnect” amendment.

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However,  only employees that are working in a company with 50 or more workers are covered by this law, which means that if you work at a digital agency with less than 20 staff, you can’t do anything should your employer decides to send an email at 2am in the morning.

 

According to Benoit Hamon of the French National Assembly  via  BBC  “All the studies show there is far more work-related stress today than there used to be, and that the stress is constant. Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached to a kind of electronic leash— like a dog. The texts, the messages, the emails — they colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down.”

 

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