> The protection should be to protect the employee who sets their phone/computer not to check email during off hours, not a prohibition on the sender uploading

> The protection should be to protect the employee who sets their phone/computer not to check email during off hours, not a prohibition on the sender uploading a message to their mail server's queue. That's usually the case, the above source didn't explain it correctly. The law actually only obligates the company to agree a set of rules with the staff elected representatives (usually from a union). In almost all cases, those rules are simply that employees cannot be obligated to connect outside their paid work hours, and not suffer any consequence for not connecting.