Work-Life Balance
Dutton wants less flexibility and more unpaid overtime for workers – by taking away the Right to Disconnect and work from home.
Right to Disconnect
The Right to Disconnect, introduced by the Albanese Government, gives workers the right to say no to unreasonable contact from their boss outside their working hours. Big business slammed the world-leading law, because it restricts how much they can contact workers outside of paid working hours.
Research shows the new right has reduced workers’ unpaid overtime by 33% since coming into effect last year. (1)
Dutton’s Coalition voted against the new workplace right and have promised Big Business they will repeal it, if they’re elected – which will have negative consequences for workers’ stress and burnout.
Working from Home
Big Business are telling Dutton to cut working from home rights for public sector workers, if he wins the election.
Why? Because Big Business thinks “The last thing we need is for their ‘stay at home first’ attitude to infect our broader economy.” (2)
In other words: Big Business wants their workers back in the office and they know that you can only take working from home rights off public sector workers by taking rights off all workers!
Dutton and the Coalition voted against strengthening work from home rights.
A Dutton-led Government will bow to Big Business pressure to take it away from public sector workers, because they agree that it is “a good policy that hadn’t found its appropriate time”. (3)
