The limitation of agile working time in legal and collective discipline

Abstract

The essay addresses the issue of flexible working time in the context of agile work. It also deals with the instruments for limiting working hours to protect constitutional rights of individuals. Building upon the results of a research study conducted through interviews with companies and managerial and administrative personnel in a macro-sector of production in the Milan area, the author questions the adequacy of legal and collective contractual discipline in the field to address the trend of extending the number of hours worked remotely. The focus is particularly on the need to make the right to disconnect effective.

Keywords

• remote work
• working time
• right to disconnect
• collective bargaining
• flexibility