right to disconnect

Why we need to shift our thinking about self-care to community-care

Date Published: 04/11/2022
Category: Women To The Front

It’s easy for bosses to virtue-signal about self-care without providing the necessary means to prevent burn out and other hazards in the first place. But in order to actually practice self-care, workers need time and financial security to do so. 

https://www.australianunions.org.au/2022/11/04/why-we-need-to-shift-our-thinking-about-self-care-to-community-care/

Why the right to disconnect matters to workers

Date Published: 21/09/2022
Category: On The Job

Passion for your job can only take you so far though, so when your phone beeps late at night or you hear the ping of another email dropping into the inbox on the weekend, you start to wonder if it’s all worth it.

https://www.australianunions.org.au/2022/09/21/why-the-right-to-disconnect-matters-to-workers/

The Right to Disconnect: allowing workers to properly unplug

Date Published: 23/02/2022
Category: Workers rights

If your boss calls or emails you outside work hours, do you reply? Too many of us do.

Australian Unions have recognised how the working from home requirement during the pandemic has exacerbated a problem across the workforce: the struggle to disconnect.

https://www.australianunions.org.au/2022/02/23/the-right-to-disconnect-allowing-workers-to-properly-unplug/

Remember when knocking off work meant just that?

Date Published: 12/04/2021
Category: On The Job

As it becomes increasingly difficult for workers to switch off, unions are pushing for the “right to disconnect” after work hours.

https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/04/12/remember-when-knocking-off-work-meant-just-that/