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Lesley Yeomans: Australian Correspondent on workers now having the right to refuse unreasonable contact outside of work hours · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: They're old enough to go to Australia and we're going
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  Speaker 1: there right now. To Leslie Yeoman's The Australia Correspondent tell
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  Speaker 1: us about this new right to disconnect, the new.
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  Speaker 2: Law that's been brought in by the Albanesi government. It
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  Speaker 2: means that people don't feel like they need to be
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  Speaker 2: on call by their employer twenty four to seven now.
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  Speaker 2: The new laws came into effect yesterday. They apply to
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  Speaker 2: businesses with more than fifteen people and it means that
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  Speaker 2: mainly junior employees can refuse to be contacted out of
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  Speaker 2: work hours. The Australian Chamber of Commerce in Industry is
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  Speaker 2: one of the employer groups that isn't happy with it.
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  Speaker 2: They say the new laws aren't necessary. They're sort of
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. But the Greens,
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  Speaker 2: the ACTU and the government, they say these new laws
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  Speaker 2: have been a long cut time coming because no work,
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  Speaker 2: particularly a junior employee should feel like that they have
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  Speaker 2: to be taking phone calls or checking emails once they
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  Speaker 2: get home after work.
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  Speaker 1: Which I think is fair enough. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: fifty fears on public transport across Brisbane. There's still people
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  Speaker 1: evading them.
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  Speaker 2: There are yes. Look these this trial was brought in
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  Speaker 2: in just a couple of weeks ago. It was announced
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the year. Nothing to do with a state
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  Speaker 2: election happening in in Queensland later in the year, of course,
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  Speaker 2: that's what the government says. But this new trial was
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  Speaker 2: brought in a couple of weeks ago and it ends
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  Speaker 2: in February. And what's been happening is everyone no matter
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  Speaker 2: where you travel on public transport and how far you travel,
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  Speaker 2: your fair will be fifty cents as long as you
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  Speaker 2: tap on and tap off. But there have been still
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of fines for fair evasion being imposed. Plus there
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  Speaker 2: have been more than almost four thousand warnings to adults
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  Speaker 2: and minors for not doing the right thing. Now, four
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five fines over two weeks out of
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  Speaker 2: the millions of trips being taken. May not sound like
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but they're not that much down on what
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  Speaker 2: the fair evasion figures were before these new fares, these
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  Speaker 2: cheap fares were brought in. So it makes you wonder
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  Speaker 2: what is actually going on with people, you know, does
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  Speaker 2: the fifty is it not a matter of how much
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  Speaker 2: the fare is, But it's just a matter of people
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  Speaker 2: trying to sort of play the system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it. There's a hardcore group of
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  Speaker 1: evaders and it doesn't matter what the fear is, you
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  Speaker 1: will never make them pay. Eleislie yeomens withous, our Australia correspondent.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess the other thing is when you make
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  Speaker 1: something so cheap, you know, fifty cents is nothing, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of take the value out of it, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: So you think, oh, well, who cares, it's only fifty
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  Speaker 1: cents that they're missing out on, and before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: you're jumping over the turnstiles.
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