How Ontario’s ‘right to disconnect’ law works and what’s still missing

Ontario is the first major jurisdiction in Canada to institute a “right to disconnect” law and it kicked in last week, giving workers the ability to disconnect from the workplace after hours. But as Anne Gaviola explains, the new law doesn’t actually require employers to guarantee that workers have the right to disconnect.

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