US EditionWhat Is Right to Disconnect Bill 2025? Amid Debate over Work-Life Balance, New Bill in Lok Sabha Creates Buzz
- On Friday, Supriya Sule, NCP MP and Lok Sabha member, introduced the 'Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025' in the Lower House, aiming to give employees the right to refuse after-hours work communications.
- Studies cited in the Bill found telepressure and info‑obesity from constant message monitoring have eroded workers' work-life balance amid digital transformation changing work time and place.
- It proposes establishing an employees' welfare authority to confer the right to disconnect, direct companies with more than 10 workers to negotiate out-of-hours terms with overtime at normal rates, and impose a 1% of total remuneration penalty for non-compliance.
- Employees would have the right to refuse after-hours work calls and emails without facing disciplinary action, and the Bill aims to reduce stress and foster better work-life balance.
- Given precedent, Private Members' Bills are hard to pass with only 14 enacted and the last approval in 1970; the Bill follows Kerala and 2019 efforts plus laws in France, Portugal, and Australia.
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What is Right to Disconnect Bill 2025? Amid debate over work-life balance, new bill in Lok Sabha creates buzz
Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule introduced “The Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025” which “aims to foster a better quality of life and a healthier work-life balance by reducing the burnout caused by today's digital culture.”
Several private member bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday, including Supriya Sule's Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025, which proposes to give employees the right to be free from work-related calls and emails after office hours, Congress MP Kadiam Kavya's Menstrual Benefits Bill, 2024, and LJP MP Shambhavi Chaudhary's bill, which focuses on ensuring paid period leave for women and students.
No calls, emails after office hours, Right to Disconnect Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
NCP MP Supriya Sule introduced the Right to Disconnect Bill 2025 in the Lok Sabha, which 'provides every employee the right to disconnect from work-related electronic communications.' She also introduced the Paternity and Paternal Benefits Bill and the Code of Social Security Bill.
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