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Re:Australian senate passes Right To Disconnect law by jamesear on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:52PM (#39341481)
Australia has strong labour laws, but my impression is that its culture is losing its historic comradery, possibly in response to density beyond what its cities can handle, and the housing crisis.

This news is a welcome win for labour laws.

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Re:Australian senate passes Right To Disconnect law by lmpdev on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:54PM (#39341493)
Are you Australian?

Union membership is at an all time low

Workchoices in 2006 and Murdoch’s associated anti-union campaigning really did a number on the Union movement here in Aus

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Re:Australian senate passes Right To Disconnect law by jamesear on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:56PM (#39341515)
Yes.

TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorkChoices

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