If a parent company adopts harmful policies or operations but transfers the riskiest aspects of those operations to a foreign subsidiary, the parent’s home state may not have jurisdiction over the subsidiary and the subsidiary’s home state(s) may not have jurisdiction over the parent. [read post]

For example, members of the United Services Union of New South Wales have voted in favour of a new Local Government (State) Award 2023, which incorporates the right to disconnect within its overtime provisions.[10] The Finance Sector Union (FSU) is currently pursuing what it describes as an ‘ambitious agenda of improvements’ during bargaining negotiations with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, including that employees be assured of their right to disconnect at the… [read post]