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  • EU Working On ‘Right to Disconnect’ Legislation For Remote Workers

    EU Working On ‘Right to Disconnect’ Legislation For Remote Workers

    With unprecedented numbers of employees working remotely, the EU is working on legislation that protects workers’ “right to disconnect.”

    As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, employees went home in record numbers to work remotely. While many employees have loved the opportunity and flexibility of working from home, doing so has come with its own challenges. Chief among those challenges has been increased blurring of the lines between home life and work, as well as the expectation employees are always available.

    The EU is looking to address the problem. According to Deutsche Welle, “lawmakers passed a non-binding resolution arguing that individuals have a fundamental ‘right to disconnect.’”

    “After months of teleworking, many workers are now suffering from negative side effects such as isolation, fatigue, depression, burnout, muscular or eye illnesses,” said Alex Agius Saliba, the Maltese politician who pushed the resolution. “The pressure to always be reachable, always available, is mounting, resulting in unpaid overtime and burnout.”

    The next step is for the full chamber to approve the measure. It can then be submitted to the commission and the individual EU member nations for a vote.

    It’s a safe bet this kind of legislation will become more common as remote work becomes the new status quo.

  • Brad Pitt To Star In New Movie Directed By Angelina Jolie

    Hollywood’s ultimate power couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, are going to work together again for the first time since 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the film that many believe sparked their relationship. The film By The Sea is written and will be directed by Jolie, who will also be directing her partner Pitt who will stars in the movie with her. By The Sea will be shot on Gonzo, Malta’s second largest island, and Mgarr ix-Xini beach was closed to the public on Sunday to start filming, which will run through November 10 of this year.

    Jolie revealed to the Inquirer that the decision to work closely with Pitt on the film wasn’t easy. “We have been shy of it for quite a few years because it’s very heavy, about a relationship, people going through and surviving a lot together. It’s not easy. So we were nervous about being able to handle the material as actors and to take it on together,” she said.

    She has described Pitt as “extremely supportive,” saying he was willing to have her direct him in the film and that they were both interested in different aspects of making it. Pitt will also be joining Jolie as a producer of the film.

    By The Sea is an intimate, character-driven film that sources say will have Jolie and Pitt’s characters getting married at one point in the story. Universal has already bought the rights to it, trusting in Jolie’s experience with directing the Golden Globe-nominated In The Land Of Blood And Honey in 2011 and her current project Unbroken, which features the life story of Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini.

    The Malta Independent has reported that construction of the set on Gonzo is underway, with one structure on the beach nearing completion. Pitt has also had experience filming in Malta before for 2004’s Troy and last year’s World War Z.

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