With Mexico’s Senate voting unanimously in favour, this reform modifies the Federal Labor Law (Ley Federal del Trabajo or LFT) by introducing a worker’s right to digital disconnection. In this way the government intends to combat ‘over-connection’ and curb ‘burn-out’ risk. The text specifies how the terms of this right will be set and seeks to prevent ‘hostile acts’ against workers who exercise it.
Mexican workers can exercise a new right. The text setting out the arrangements of this provision for teleworking employees comes in the form of an addition to article 68-bis of the Federal Labor Law, and was published in the parliamentary official gazette on 29 April. It ‘guarantees the right to digital disconnection outside of legal working hours,’ while at the same time promising workers ‘respect for their rest times, leave times, and holiday times, as well as for their personal and...
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