translated from Spanish: They generally pass a bill that allows digital disconnection of workers outside of working hours

The Chamber of Deputies generally approved, with 142 votes in favour and three abstentions, the bill establishing the right to digital disconnection of workers outside of working hours.
The project, which stems from the recasting of two previously proposed motions, amends the Labour Code in order to guarantee workers “respect for their rest time, medical leave, leave and vacation, as well as their personal privacy and extending it also to contract workers with respect to the primary employer,” the proposal document states.
However, the benefit is exempted in cases where the work of a worker in question is urgently required, as are those who have agreed to “emergency shifts, calls or waiting times”.
The project also grants “equal right to civil servants and workers to fees who serve on a specified day, which must be exercised according to the nature of their duties”.
Digital tie
Despite the myriad benefits that adetached technology can bring, this sometimes results in a higher workload for the worker.
Members point out in the document that, in the United States, surveys indicate that the digital effect gives businesses between an hour and an hour and a half of free work.
They add that the OECD, of which the country is a part, stipulated in a report that “Chile is one of the countries where workers accumulate the most hours of work and this is generating high levels of work stress”.
Members set an example for French law. It turns out that on January 1, 2017, the first legal rule in the world that recognizes the right to digital disconnection came into force, which happened in France under the law known as “Loi El Khormi” (due to the name of its driver).
The law incorporates “measures to adapt the labour market to the digital environment and, among them, the so-called “Right to Disconnection”. Article 7 thereof states :The arrangements for the worker’s full exercise of his right to disconnection and the commissioning by the undertaking of devices for regulating the use of digital devices, in order to ensure respect for time rest and vacation, as well as their personal and family life,” they mention in the document.
The project still has several stages to become law. As he was given indications in his time in the Chamber of Deputies, he will now re-enter the Labor Committee. If the amendments to the proposal are approved, it will be processed in the Senate.

Original source in Spanish

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