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What if working from home was a legal right?
An Australian state is planning a new hybrid work law despite an angry business outcry.
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The Australian state of Victoria is shaking the politics of remote working in a way that governments elsewhere may find hard to ignore.
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Pilita Clark
It is hard to keep up with Australia. If it isn’t passing some of the toughest anti-vaping laws on the planet, it’s bringing in a world-first ban on social media for kids under the age of 16. Or becoming the first country to prohibit the artificial stone used for kitchen worktops that is linked with lung disease.
Now, Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria is planning another ground-breaking move: a law giving workers in both the private and public sectors the right to work from home for at least two days a week.
