Switzerland: home-office journey is work

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 3 - By bus, subway, tram, entertainment, in the coffee stop during the journey every day from home to the office: you answer the phone, send and receive e-mails and messages via social networks with indications, prompt echiarimenti on the commitments of the day. That too is work, and now - from January 1 - in Switzerland for federal public employees who request it will be included in the working day's calculation and therefore paid. Local imedia report this.
The change of rules was authorized by Bern after solicitations during the past year by four trade unions: "Greater flexibility in the form of work is a requirement of our days," said Anand Jagtap of the Federal Personnel Office, specifying however that to obtain the recognition will still require the authorization of superiors, with the cases that will be examined from time to time based on their characteristics.