Peter Dutton says Coalition will repeal 'right to disconnect' laws if it wins government (www.abc.net.au)

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What a winner.

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[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 9 months ago

Wait. Does he think this is a popular idea? Is there a majority of people out there who want worse working conditions???

I don't understand

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago

It's not aimed at people like you or me, but at the corporate class and their media backers. The idea being, get them on board, and they'll run a propaganda campaign for you.

Not that they need to really, as Murdoch will almost always side with the conservatives.

[-] Geobloke@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Not even them, it's for all the tradies out there who are worried that they mightn't be able to call their workers in for a bit of extra cash.

Not sure if there is a carve out for that situation, but doesn't mean he won't exploit the fear

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 3 points 9 months ago

There could be a carve out, just like our trading laws: make it based on number of employees.

Running a small business that requires less than 5 or 6 people to operate? You can call someone after hours for help if you're desperate.

Running a major corporate with hundreds on the payroll? GGF.

You get my drift...

[-] flathead@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

I don't get it either. Why announce it like he's proud of it as a policy position when he could just push it through if they manage to win a majority? Who sent him out in front of the cameras to talk about it? The only thing I can think of is that maybe he's being deliberately set up for a spill because he's so obviously out of touch and un-electable.

[-] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 28 points 9 months ago

Even if the law gets repealed, I still will not answer phone calls and emails from work outside of work. I don't work from home, nor do I get paid for it, so...

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

But I also understand that not everyone is in a position to be able to turn this off and I would like the right to disconnect to be codified for them. Did I use codify correctly?

[-] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I agree, it should stay in place (as in, not repealed by subsequent government). Employees shouldn't feel pressured to pick up the phone outside of work.

I always thought not answering the phone was always an unwritten rule of employment unless it's in your contact, so that's the way I have always acted.

Codify: "to arrange something, such as laws or rules, into a system", so I believe that's correct.

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the Lib party received a few calls from their donors.

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 21 points 9 months ago

Dutton is one of those people who is clearly so nasty it has seeped out and taken over his physical appearance.

What a goon. I mean the Liberals are the party of evil greedy lying shits anyway but he’s like an exaggerated cartoon mascot for them.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

You know, I preferred Mr Potato Head's work in Toy Story, I don't know why he ever got in to politics.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Didn't know Lex Luthor was Australian

[-] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I thought Lex Luthor was a genius. Dutton is quite clearly not a genius.

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

Boomer brain

[-] autotldr 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sworn to repeal laws that will give workers the right to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours communications from their bosses if the Coalition wins the next federal election.

The government agreed to include a "right to disconnect" in its industrial relations bill, which was rushed through the senate last week in a last-minute deal with the Greens and crossbench.

Ignoring suggestions it should be referred to committee for closer scrutiny, or that those amendments should have been circulated publicly, the government has since realised the bill included a mistake that could see bosses face criminal prosecution for contacting employees out of hours.

But Mr Dutton says even corrected, the laws will be damaging to relations between employers and employees, and make the task of restarting productivity growth even more difficult.

"If you think it's okay to outsource your industrial relations or your economic policy to the Greens, which is what the prime minister is doing, then we are going to see a continuation of the productivity problem in our country," Mr Dutton said.

Former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe warned last year that generous wage rises to close the inflation gap would only fuel it further unless they were accompanied by increases in productivity.

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