Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours

Australians worked on average 281 hours of unpaid overtime in 2023, according to a survey last year by the Australia Institute. — Image by creativeart on Freepik

SYDNEY: Is your boss texting you on the weekend? Work email pinging long after you've left for home?

Australian employees can now ignore those and other intrusions into home life thanks to a new "right to disconnect" law designed to curb the creep of work emails and calls into personal lives.