You do not have to respond to an email after out of hours: civil servants are allowed to disconnect

Belgium

Law and holidays will be protected by law: defense against messages and late calls.

Too little reminder: new technologies have exploded employee productivity. However, there is an increase in occupational diseases whose burns are most famous. Hyper connectivity disappears … Public servants are not excluded.

To address this phenomenon, a strong cause of absence, right to disconnect around 18,000 Walloon civil servants.

The principle has included in a draft decree that the Walloon government should adopt on Thursday. The text, which is transported by Alda Greoli (HHH), the Walloon Minister of the Public Service, devotes this principle of disconnection.

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