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		luismedel 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B All companies I've worked at had (paid) on-call set up. The right to disconnect isn't incompatible with business needs and the law contemplates it. Also, nurses and doctors do it too.

everfrustrated 23 days ago [–]

Yeah that law is really about not taking advantage of low paid-by-the-hour employees vs high paid salaried.

But give people any excuse and they'll run with it.

In the UK custom has always been to require a standard opt-out to be signed as part of hiring process.

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