The Need To Disconnect Digitally

The need to disconnect digitally

The content of this work basically refers to the issue of digital and work disconnection, from the exception to routine, the vote was promoted by the Labor and Public Affairs Commission. The Covid has deleted the barriers, the European Parliament defends the need to create a law. That you want to protect, there is already a regulation about working time. Some regulations in this regard, the document also recognizes that some countries have already adopted some measures.

Europe recognizes the right to digital and labor disconnection: this is what it wants to be collected by law.

Europe wants your boss to stop you when you have finished your workday or be on vacation and that the idea that, for certain positions of responsibility, it is always necessary to be available.

The European Parliament has approved, with 472 votes in favor, 126 against and 83 abstentions, ask the commission to propose a law that allows those who work digitally to disconnect outside their working hours. Something that would include power to turn off its electronic devices during non -work hours and vacations. You must also establish minimal requirements for distance work and clarify working conditions, schedules and rest periods.

From exceptionality to routine

The vote was promoted by the Labor Commission to Public Affairs. In a report prior to the vote, this agency explains that, which was previously exceptional, it has now become routine.

That is, 20 years ago, except for emergency cases, workers were not contacted due to job issues outside the hours of work and much less on vacation or weekends.

However, they say that today many managers have the routine to contact employees and colleagues by email or even by phone after work, during the weekends or holidays.

The report ensures that the idea is promoted that being connected to work beyond work is good for work and having greater productivity.

The Covid has erased the barriers

The European Parliament defends the need to create a law that protects the right to disconnection. Parliaments believe that it is an issue that has been made of special relevance because the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that there are more and more people who work from home, which makes the barriers between personal and professional lives have spread.

People who normally work from home are twice as likely to work more hours than the rest than the rest.

That you want to protect

There is already a regulation on working time, the working time directive, which regulates some of the working conditions that must be respected.

Thus, this European directive sets the maximum work times and minimal rest:

Maximum 48 hours per week -Min 11 hours of rest

However, the right to this disconnection is not defined in EU legislation. Parliament wants to change that. Therefore, he has asked the commission to prepare a law that allowed employees to disconnect from work during non -work hours without consequences.

Parliament wants to prevent the future law from contemplating these measures.

• Employers should not demand that workers be available outside their work schedule.
• Companions should refrain from contacting their colleagues for work reasons.
• That there is a mechanism to process complaints or infractions of the right to disconnect.
• Distance professional training and learning activities should be counted as work activity and should not take place during overtime or free days without adequate compensation

Some regulations on this

The document also recognizes that some countries (such as Spain) have already adopted some measures to guarantee these work breaks. In our country, on the 23rd of the year, the Law of Teleworking is a law that states that “the people who work at a distance, particularly on teleworking, have the right to digital disconnection outside their work schedule in the terms established in the art. 88 of Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5 ”.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion I say that the right to digital and work disconnection is very important for our specific society that work on teleworking. Because when the schedule established by a company has already been disconnected in their free time, he or she could do many things because they also have to serve their families. Personally, I agree that this law must be implemented in all countries because it will be avoided that health to reduce, beyond the fact that work sheets are good for work and have greater productivity. And to aspire to certain positions. Companies have to think about the health of their employees. So they would not feel suffocated by work.