What an utterly weird reading; I have a hard time seeing it as literal at all. Maybe you have your own definition of "literal"? It says they have the right to

What an utterly weird reading; I have a hard time seeing it as literal at all. Maybe you have your own definition of "literal"? It says they have the right to ignore them after hours. After hours is when they do the ignoring. When they're back on the clock, they stop ignoring and start reading their emails again. Including the ones sent while they were off; the headline doesn't say they have the right to ignore anything during working hours.