The government should not introduce national legislation on the right to disconnect, the Malta Chamber and the Malta Business Bureau said on Friday. Moreover, "jumpstarting" a process at European level was "neither necessary nor time appropriate", they said. The right to disconnect allows workers to cut off from work-related activity during out-of-office hours, giving them the right to not respond to emails or phone calls in the evenings or weekends, for instance. Last month, MEP Alex Agius Saliba told The Malta Independent minister Carmelo Abela had indicated to him that the government wanted to introduce the right to disconnect before the EU passed its own directive on the issue.