I'm in Europe, and work for an American company. After a few issues in production, they tried to implement an on-call requirement for employees to check the alerts during their out of work hours (5am to 10pm or something stupid like that). I just reminded them that my country has the "Right to disconnect" law, which protects us from having to work outside our required hours.

They changed it to volunteer basis. I refuse to volunteer (because my off time is my time).

[–] CoriolisSTORM88@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's amazing that I work for a large European company in America and am forced to accept calls or come into the plant 24/7.

It's almost like it has to come from a government to make corporations behave.

I have colleagues that have their out of offices set to "I'll be available by cell or email" or somesuch. Mine doesn't say anything, and I don't check it unless I want to. My vacation time is MY time.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Either the government does it or you join a union. I am a member of a large construction trade union and it's written into our contract that we cannot be denied time off and can't be forced to be available during off hours or made to work overtime.

The catch is that if you want to advance in the company it really helps if you can make a little extra effort. You absolutely will never be penalized for sticking to the minimum requirements, but you also will never move up into management, which is perfectly fine with a lot of people.

[–] knobpolisher@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work in tech, in a datacenter, and godamn this whole industry needs to be unionized. Between all the servers/etc serviced from the hot aisle (which is constantly more than 100F), no structured cabling anywhere, and a lack of sane standards that actually serve a purpose... Yeah I should get a different job

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or start union. Or join one.

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