Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2024, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 75-81.DOI: 10.11885/j.issn.1674 5094.2024.03.13.03

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An Analysis of the Necessity of Workers' Rights to Disconnect in the Digital Era

LU Rongjie   

  1. School of Law, Southeast University, Nanjing Jiangsu, 211189, China
  • Received:2024-03-13 Published:2024-07-25

Abstract: Digital technology has brought huge economic benefits to employers, but it has also fostered a“work anywhere”culture, particularly in online platform employment. Different from the traditional employment in the real world, the network platform employment has the characteristics of“24-hour online accessibility”, which exposes the network platform workers to risks of the blurring of limits between work and rest time, the difficulty to guarantee fair employment right, and the erosion of the right to life and health. The“right to disconnect”is the derivative right, which is a new manifestation of workers’right to rest in the digital era. To guarantee network platform laborers’“right to disconnect”for the vision of better digital life for all laborer, clause concerning“right to disconnect”can be added through the legislation, and distinguishing principle can be introduced, so that digital workers’right to choose is respected to safeguard the establishment of the form of implementation of the“right to disconnect”through negotiation between the laborer and the employer.

Key words: digital labor, right to disconnect, right to reject, right to rest, digital human rights

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