(UPDATE) SYDNEY, Australia — Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to "disconnect" on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours calls, emails and texts from their bosses.

People can now refuse to monitor, read or respond to their employers' attempts to contact them outside work hours — unless that refusal is deemed "unreasonable."

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