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Owen Hughes, Senior Editor
Owen Hughes
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on January 7, 2022
| Topic: CXO
Teleworking has made it harder for workers to switch off
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Civil servants in Belgium will have the legal right to ignore calls from their employers outside of work hours under new laws designed to protect workers against overworking and burnout.
From 1 February 2022, a ‘right to disconnect’ will be introduced in Belgium that will effectively ban civil services bosses from contacting employees when they are not at work, apart from in emergency or otherwise ‘exceptional’ circumstances.
According to Belgian newspaper De Morgan, the new rules were set out in a letter to civil servants by Petra De Sutter, Minister of Civil Service for Belgium’s Green Party.
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