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Employees' new right to disconnect is unlikely to cause a significant change in Australian workplaces, an employment law specialist says.

The right, which was included in the Closing Loopholes No.2 Bill that passed by Parliament earlier this month, will take effect six months after the legislation receives Royal Assent.

"Employees who are in jobs where they are eager to get ahead and climb ladders, or even just in jobs that they are worried about losing, will most likely not choose to ignore calls outside of work hours or make orders to stop their employers from contacting them," Hickson Lawyers partner Warwick Ryan says by way of example...