Should workers have a legal right to ignore their boss after hours?

Texts, calls and emails all count.

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If I'm hourly and clocked out, absolutely.

But salaried workers need this too! I hate my job enough as it is. Forcing me to work at night would be a nightmare.

fair. unless being on call is a job requirement, the laptop can stay closed

”would” is the key word. You don’t have to do that. And if they did, you could find a job with better hours. That’s the free market.

Companies know most workers can't just walk away which is exactly why protections exist.

There's a limit. We can't regulate every single situation in every job.

Yes. Make America Great Again by returning to how it worked before technology. No way to contact your employees via a midnight slack message.

Not wanting to work hard is a "Make America the 3rd World" mindset

With all our wealth why aren't we allowed to relax?