In the future, employees will be able to turn off their phones and computers so that the employer cannot reach them after work, at night, on weekends and holidays, unless the nature of the work requires it.
Social Democrat Algimantas Radvila, who has registered such amendments to the Labor Code, proposes allowing employees to be unavailable in such cases.
According to him, the aim is to ensure employees' right to private life, improve their mental and physical health, help avoid potential misunderstandings and disputes, and improve their work-life balance.
This is not the first such attempt by the Social Democrats - they wanted to legalize such a procedure in 2022 as well, and one of the initiators of the amendments at that time was the current Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas.
Then the industrialists explained that they did not understand why such issues were wanted to be addressed by law, since most companies had applied flexible working hours after the Covid pandemic. The trade unions supported this idea and proposed that the same amendment provide for the prevention of other employees disturbing colleagues after work.
The current procedure provides that in the case of remote work, the time worked by an employee is calculated in accordance with the procedure established by the employer. The employee divides it at his or her discretion, without violating the maximum work and minimum rest time requirements.
The author is Sniegė Balčiūnaitė
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