SAO PAOLO - The workers in Brazil are now actually able to get quality time after the end of their working hours. The reason, governments in these countries are now implementing the requirements of new regulations related to the issue of overtime. According to the rule, workers who receive and answer emails After their working hours, including overtime now.
The new rules approved by the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff last month. He said the company that sends e-mail to employees equivalent to the command given directly to employees.
According to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Brazil has a population of 195 million people, but the number of mobile subscribers exceeded 210.5 million in August last year.
Launched by Stuff, Friday (13/01/2012), a lawyer of workers' representatives told the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the new law allows workers to answer email after hours to ask for overtime pay.
This is not the first problem. In May, Chicago police officers Jeffrey Allen filed a class action lawsuit against the city, asking for unpaid overtime compensation, because he got an email job outside working hours.
In December, the German carmaker Volkswagen agreed with labor representatives to disable the BlackBerry email after work was over. The move comes after the IT firm Atos announced plans to eliminate the company's internal email in 2013.
