The right to disconnect in Europe and some suggestions for Vietnam

Tác giả:  Nguyễn Duy Dũng, Nguyễn Hải Yến và Trần Nguyễn Quang Hạ

ABSTRACT: The digital revolution creates huge changes to social life, including the labor sector and the natureof labor relations. It has also ameliorated social relationships and affected social life in the future. Itspositive sides are to increase labor productivity, work efficiency, reduce input costs, and to createmany connection methods between employers and employees. However, its disadvantage hasled employees to deal with working at any time, disturbing their lives as well as the emergence ofan “always-on working culture”. It also blurs the boundary between working life and personal life.Employees are responsible for ongoing communication, resulting in compounded tiredness and aloss of efficiency. In addition, the negative impact of the digital revolution in the labor sector is theabuse of communication technology that infringes on the rights of workers, which prompted theintroduction of the right to disconnect. The advent of the right to disconnect as a response to theoveruse of communication technology in the workplace, or always-on working culture. Currently, many countries have brought in the right to disconnect, the right to disconnect was first regulatedby the European Union and its member states. In this article, the authors is going to analyze thefollowing main issues: (1) The right to disconnect and the nature of the right to disconnect; (2)Regulations of the European Union and some European countries on the right to disconnect; (3)Regulations of Vietnamese law on working hours; (4) The authors come to the conclusion that “the right to disconnect” must be included in Vietnam labor legislation and recommend some initiativesto ensure the rights of employees in Vietnam under the negative impact of the digital revolution.

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