The Right to Disconnect: a Response to One of the Challenges Raised by the Digital Transition? European and Belgian perspectives

peer reviewed ; The digital transition has blurred the spatial and temporal boundaries of work. The hyper-connection of employees calls for new regulatory responses which, without deconstructing labour law, would be better adapted to life in modern society. The rules on working hours and the respect thereof are, in fact, based on the industrial work model. They are ill-suited for various modern forms of work organisation, particularly those linked to the intensive use of digital devices. Under the current legal framework, many, albeit not all, workers have the legal tools to disconnect once th... Mehr ...