POST SCRIPT ON THE RIGHT TO LEISURE

As Martha Davis wrote earlier this month, US employers and workers rarely value or take advantage on their vacation rights.  Setting aside the fact that the Americans often do not take vacation time to which they are entitled, when Americans do take time away from work may remain “connected”.

Now some European companies are making it easier for their employees to disconnect during their time away from work.  At Daimler, email of vacationing employees is set to “holiday” mode.  Emailers are informed that the employee is away and are informed of an alternate contact.  The emails are then deleted from the emplyees inbox so that the worker does not return to numerous emails who authors would otherwise expect responses

If you did not have a chance to read the full post on TaxProfsBlog, here is the link.

Happy Labor Day.