Adapting labor law to the digital age worker's right to disconnect
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Traditional work arrangements have changed as a consequence of the digital revolution, allowing employees in contemporary society to work whenever and wherever they want. Flexible work arrangements have several advantages for workers in the digital age, such as more flexibility, improved time management, and decreased travel costs. However, they have indeed increased working hours and blurred the lines between employees' professional and personal lives. Working whenever and wherever is now completely feasible. This paper examines the essence of the right to disconnect, the way it is governed by important instruments of international (European) law, as well as the comparative systems in which it has already been recognized. To order to figure out whether the current legislative framework is enough to allow workers to exercise this right daily, it also refers to the Resolution's most crucial clauses (2019/2181; European Parliament). Finally, the necessity, desirability, and potential approaches to incorporating the worker's right to disconnect into domestic labor law legislation are taken into account.
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