> However, a proposal to include the so-called "right to disconnect" - the legal right to switch off work-related messages and devices outside office hours - was rejected by Portuguese MPs.

I genuinely don’t get this. It seems completely backwards.

Surely your boss should have the right to contact you, but you should have the right not to answer until your working hours recommence?

Is Portugal deciding that the very act of sending a message creates some kind of coercive pressure to work?

If so, why did they decide against the “right to disconnect”?