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Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

If you aren't getting paid extra for after-hours, don't pickup that phone!

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What a garbage misleading title from Reuters.

We always could not answer calls after work, it was never mandatory.

What this change is, is banning employers from doing it at all and giving fines for those who try to do so.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago

To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago

Lemmy is called that because we have to keep saying "Lemmy read that article for you, ya lazy cunt"

Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach the rule.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Is this the good, banter cunt or the bad, you stink cunt in this context? I can never tell.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

I took it as good banter and it's a response to me. So if you're offended in my honor then you're a bit too sensitive for the internet.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

I'm offended that you think I'd be offended!

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Well I'm offend at your offense of my idea that you'd be offended!!

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Fair enough. Cheers!

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The "ya" bit makes it the bantery type. If it was "you" it'd be the stinky type

[+] souperk@reddthat.com -44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean you spend the time to read the article already, why not help someone else save that time?

Also, calling someone lazy is ableist, please don't do that, you don't know another person's circumstances or if that's a trigger...

Edit: For anyone interested to know more about ableism or why laziness is an ableist concept:

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

People like you make the world worse, not better

Calling someone a lazy cunt is better for them in the long term than being a self righteous wank like you

Edit to reply to OP's edit -

Stop reading shite like that mate, it's fucking brain-rot 😂

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Lemmy's in a fighting mood today huh?

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah, if someone uses "ableist" and "trigger" in the same sentence, they got their personality from other people online who are also just desperate to make everything about themselves and feel morally superior to everyone around them

Then they wonder why they grow old lonely lol

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

So ideally, one person should read the article and disseminate it to others, who then disseminated to others, all in the name of saving time? Have you ever played a game called telephone?

[-] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I have played that game! You make a convincing argument for reading the article and not relying on others to read it for you, as nearly every time I've played telephone the original phrase is completely lost.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I have fiddled with that concept, too! You are almost persuading me to buy a newspaper and have a look by myself, instead of trusting people to read the article to me, because when I send too many letter chains, the result is usually non sense.

[-] souperk@reddthat.com -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

First of all, thanks for the interesting outlook, it gave something to think about!

In general, I don't like thinking in absolutes. It's not like everyone will read the article or everyone won't, some people will and some won't.

There it helps me to break down to more categories:

People that will read the article, understand it, and have critical thoughts to share.
People that will read the article, understand it, but won't have anything to add or critize.
People that will read the article, but won't understand it.
People that won't read the article, but would if something caught their attention (like a question on the comments).
People that won't read the article, but would read the comments.
People that won't read the article, but will comment something interesting about the title or the discussions in the comments.
People that won't interact with the post at all.
Other possible categories I haven't considered.

The telephone game is really helpful to understand how interactions between people of the categories above will go. However, keep in mind that the goal is not necessarily 100% accurate transmission of the author's message. On the contrary, it's possible people are looking for different interpretations, relevant information, criticism, and/or a laugh.

Personally, I really like it when people provide quotes they find interesting along with their own analysis. An example would be:

To allow? What? Was Australia requiring/forcing everyone to answer calls from bosses at all hours?

Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach the rule.

So you cannot be fired anymore for not answering your boss's 2AM call. It nice to make to make progress, but the bar is so low it's a tavern in Hades...

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry mate, didn't realise you were an autist lol

Don't learn to interact with people by using phrases that you read on the internet, you just end up sounding like a fuckin idiot, which I'm sure you're not 😂. Entirely.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Telling somebody that using basic adjectives otherwise not considered pejorative is ableist is my trigger, so like… please don’t do that around me.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Our labour laws are a lot better than the US, but there are some gaps.

One of those gaps is out-of-hours work calls/emails: there's currently no explicit protection against your employer insisting you make yourself available.

Lots of unionised workplaces have a 'right to disconnect' clause in the EBA, but if you don't have an EBA, you're on your own.

This legislation aims to fix that.

[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 points 7 months ago

This wasn't already the case?

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wtf do you mean allow? Are people from Australia fuckin servants or something?

Wtf is going on down under?

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