MP tables Bill in LS to curb after-hours work calls

A private member’s bill seeking to give employees the legal right to ignore work-related calls and emails outside working hours was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday.

NCP MP Supriya Sule moved the Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025, which proposes an Employees’ Welfare Authority and would confer upon every employee the right to disconnect from work-related telephone calls and electronic communications beyond their scheduled hours and on holidays. The draft law would allow employees to decline to respond to such communications without penalty.

Separately, Congress MP Kadiyam Kavya introduced the Menstrual Benefits Bill, 2024, which seeks to provide specified workplace facilities and protections for women during menstruation. Lok Janshakti Party MP Shambhavi Choudhary also moved a bill to secure paid menstrual leave for working women and female students, and to ensure access to menstrual-hygiene facilities and associated health benefits.