Comment weird (Score 1) 477
It's not a law per se but a branch agreement between employers and labor unions in part of the IT industry. Even for a french speaker the wording sounds bizarre, as if the 2 parties had only managed to come to a wobbly, half-baked agreement.
Translated form the original agreement :
"Effective respect by the employee of these minimal rest hours implies that they compulsorily disconnect from remote communication tools.
The employer will make sure that a tracking tool is set up to enforce employee daily and weekly off-work times.
They will also put into place any necessary means to ensure that the employee can disconnect from remote communication tools at their disposal.
It should be noted that, in this context, employees with annualized working days, in agreement with their employer, can freely manage the time necessary to accomplish their mission."
While it appears some unions wanted strict obligation to remain off-line between 10 PM to 7 AM (in French), it was finally agreed that it was not feasible due to multi-timezone bound jobs.
My interpretation is that the first sentence is here to allow employers to deny any responsibility if an employee was to work long hours from home on their own initiative and blame that on the company later.
All in all it's not such a big deal, just :
We make sure you can disconnect
You disconnect
You don't sue us for pressurizing you if you don't
As a side note, this isn't unseen before in Europe - in 2011 Volkswagen had already established a daily "truce" in email communications, stopping their Blackberry servers after work hours.
Translated form the original agreement
"Effective respect by the employee of these minimal rest hours implies that they compulsorily disconnect from remote communication tools.
The employer will make sure that a tracking tool is set up to enforce employee daily and weekly off-work times.
They will also put into place any necessary means to ensure that the employee can disconnect from remote communication tools at their disposal.
It should be noted that, in this context, employees with annualized working days, in agreement with their employer, can freely manage the time necessary to accomplish their mission."
While it appears some unions wanted strict obligation to remain off-line between 10 PM to 7 AM (in French), it was finally agreed that it was not feasible due to multi-timezone bound jobs.
My interpretation is that the first sentence is here to allow employers to deny any responsibility if an employee was to work long hours from home on their own initiative and blame that on the company later.
All in all it's not such a big deal, just
We make sure you can disconnect
You disconnect
You don't sue us for pressurizing you if you don't
As a side note, this isn't unseen before in Europe - in 2011 Volkswagen had already established a daily "truce" in email communications, stopping their Blackberry servers after work hours.
