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Daniel Barnet here. Enrolment for the 2025 Virtual Employment Law Academy is now open. Go to www.virtualemploymentlawacademy for more information. Enjoy the episode. of employment law matters. I'm Barris the Daniel Barnett, a member of Outer Temple Chambers and presenter of the Legal Hour on LBC. Today's episode is dropping on the 21st of May 2024 and I'm going to speak about the right to disconnect at work. But did you know that on this day in 1927 Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic in the spirit of St. Louis. There you go, and it's also National Memo Day. Let's hear something about that. The
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history of the memo goes back much further than you might suspect. The word memo comes from the Latin memorandum, a word that means, appropriately enough, it must be remembered. The purpose of a memo was to aid memory by putting notification of events and observations in written communication. Originally this was done with handwritten communication, and then developed with mechanical writing forms like the printing press, typewriter and printer, and now into the digital age with email. It can sometimes be forgotten that before the world of instant messaging and emailing, that the world revolved around physical
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communications. And now you know. In today's episode, you'll learn about the current protections at work, not that they amount to much, Labour proposed right to switch off, set out in Labour's green paper, New Deal for Working People, and my top 10 tips for employers. If you don't subscribe to this podcast, please do. It's called Employment Law Matters. And go and give us a review, please. Go on, you know you want to.
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to employment law matters with barrister Daniel Barnet. Technology
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and remote working have transformed the way we work. Many employees no longer suffer the energy sapping daily commute or the rigidity of the nine to five working day. Employers benefit from being able to reach out to their employees outside of normal office hours.
