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'Right to Disconnect' | Canadian entrepreneur slams new law - but remember, you don't own your staff!

Canadian entrepreneur slams new law - but remember, you don't own your staff!

The Canadian entrepreneur and Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary has criticised Australia’s new ‘right to disconnect’ law.

O’Leary slammed the new rules, which gives employees the right to refuse if their employer contacts them outside of work hours, saying that some roles and situations require staff to be contacted outside of work hours. 

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