DISCONNECTING IN A CONNECTED WORLD: COMPARATIVE LEGAL APPROACH TO THE RIGHT TO DIS-CONNECT
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Technology and digital world nowadays have resulted in constant connectivity at the workplace, even outside the working hours making the work boundaries become blurry. This transformation from the traditional 9 to 5 working hours to unlimited 24/7 has raised concerns about work-life balance, mental health, and employee well-being. Owing to this, the emergence of the right to disconnect as a legal and policy issue has taken place in many countries. Starting with France that introduced right to disconnect in her legislation, other European countries seemed to follow the practice and extended beyond Europe continent to countries such as Canada, Ireland and Australia, even though the approaches are diverse. This paper explores comparative legal approaches to the right to disconnect, analyzing how different jurisdictions have addressed this challenge through legislation. By examining legal frameworks in selected countries in the European countries such as France, Spain and Italy, together with Canada and Australia, this study highlights the diversity of regulatory strategies and enforcement challenges. The paper concludes with recommendations as a way forward for Malaysia in balancing business needs and employee rights in an increasingly digital world.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".