This week sees another manifesto promise broken as Labour ditches the ‘right to switch off’.

The policy allowing workers to ignore work-related emails and calls outside office hours, including the right to refuse to take on extra work at the weekends, was a central part of Keir Starmer’s manifesto promise of a “New Deal for Working People”.

But now it seems a government source is telling the media, “The right to switch off is dead. We have to lower business compliance costs as much as possible.

“Growth that puts money in people’s pockets is the number one priority of this Government’s plan for change.

“That means making Britain the best country in the world to do business and a key part of that is removing unnecessary barriers.”

Oh, so the right to rest is an “unnecessary barrier” to business, is it?

And is this the attitude of the prime minister who said, last August, that “for workers to stay motivated and productive they do need to be able to switch off, and a culture [of] presenteeism can be damaging to productivity”?

Of course it is. Starmer the turncoat is simply showing his true colours.

Source: Labour’s ‘right to switch off’ for workers faces axe this week | The Independent