Overview
- NCP MP Supriya Sule tabled the Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025, granting employees the option to ignore work calls and emails outside official hours and on holidays.
- The proposal states that staff are not obliged to respond after hours and cannot face disciplinary action for declining such contact.
- It calls for an Employees’ Welfare Authority to confer the right, conduct a baseline study on out‑of‑hours digital use, and guide implementation.
- Companies with more than 10 workers would be required to negotiate terms with employees or unions for after‑hours work and provide overtime at the normal wage rate.
- Non‑compliance would draw a penalty equal to 1% of employees’ total remuneration, and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor separately introduced a related amendment bill to secure similar protections.