The Right To Disconnect In Ireland New Code Of Practice Published

A new Code of Practice on the Right to Disconnect (the "Code") has been published this week. 

The Code directs employers in Ireland to assess their working arrangements and patterns and to agree on and publish a Right to Disconnect Policy.  

What is the code?

The purpose of the Code is to provide practical guidance for employers and employees to agree working arrangements, appropriate to their business, that maintain clear boundaries between work and leisure. 

The three key changes are:

a) The right of an employee to avoid routinely performing work outside normal working hours;

b) The right to protection from penalisation for refusing to work outside of normal working hours; and