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Robin Abcarian: Does your boss bug you after hours and on weekends? This bill is for you

An Apple iPhone X in November 2017.

Matt Haney, the Democratic assemblyman from San Francisco, has a text thread with a group of childhood friends. One works in biotech/bioscience, one in film media and one has a job in the fitness industry.

Earlier this year, Haney told me, one of them shared a link to a story about a new law in Australia that gives workers the right to "disconnect," that is, to avoid answering most pesky texts, emails and phone calls from bosses once the workday ends.

"My friends all starting chiming in about how they feel that work/life balance is awful and people

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