Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
Reading the text, they didn’t actually create a right to disconnect from work. They only require employers to write down their policy and share it with employees:<p>&gt; The legislation offers no guidance as to what must be included in the policy, and simply provides that the policy must include &quot;such information as may be prescribed.&quot; This was apparently intentional as noted in the legislative summary in an effort to offer employers flexibility to develop a policy appropriate to its operational needs.<p>So unless I’m missing something, a company can write down “Employees must be available as needed” or something equally vague and they comply with the policy.<p>In practice I would expect most employers to write a lot of vague wording about how employees aren’t required to be active online in their off hours, but they’ll leave the door open for emergency communications as needed. No sane company is going to write down a legally binding policy that nobody is going to contact anybody else at certain times. Imagine how easy it would be for a manager to break such a restriction by accidentally tagging an employee name in Slack at the wrong time of day, for example.<p>The “right to disconnect” seems largely symbolic.<p>On the other hand, banning non-competes is a big deal. They are effectively banned in my location (and several other states in the United States) and it’s great to not worry about it at all.