The Right to Disconnect in the Context of Employees’ Mental Health

• Authors: Marcel Dolobáč , Katarína Skolodová

Abstracts

EN

The development of technology has a significant impact and creates new requirements in the field of labour-law relations. One of these requirements is the protection of occupational health and safety by preventing the blurring of boundaries between employees’ work and private lives. The most important means which is currently the subject of discussions in the professional community, but also in practice, is the right to disconnect. This paper is devoted exactly to this right, its perception at the level of the institutions of the European Union, and its legal enshrinement in the legislation of the Slovak Republic.

Keywords

EN

mental health; right to disconnect; teleworking; occupational safety and health

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 163-179

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Marcel Dolobáč

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

• https://orcid.org/0000000338006216

author

Katarína Skolodová

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

• https://orcid.org/000000030794367X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ppuam.2022.14.08

Biblioteka Nauki

28675138