If Parliament Passes This Bill, You Will Be Able To Reject Call By Boss After Office Hours

Calls from your boss after work hours may become a thing of the past in India if a private bill introduced in the Parliament gets passed.. 

NCP MP Supriya Sule has introduced a private member's bill for setting up an Employees' Welfare Authority to confer the right on every employee to disconnect from work-related telephone calls and emails beyond work hours and on holidays and the right to refuse to answer calls and emails outside work hours.

A private member's bill in a parliamentary system of government is a bill introduced in a the parliament by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive.

Though the bill has been introduced in the parliament, it is highly unlikely that it will be taken up for discussion or passed. Only a very few private members bill have ever been considered in the parliament so far.

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Currently, only France have a legal provision that allows employees to disconnect work-related emails after office hours.
France had in 2017, enacted a law that in effect made after-hours work emails illegal, allowing workers to exercise their “right to disconnect.” Companies were encouraged to set blackout times after work during which an employee would not be responsible for responding to a email.