Kevin O’Leary says ‘right to disconnect’ laws are ‘insane’ and ‘stupid’

“Or do you have an emergency somewhere and you have to hold their hand at two in the morning because it affects their job and their tenure in the organization?” he added.

O’Leary added that allowing workers to ignore such late-night communications doesn’t make sense to him.

“This kind of thing drives me crazy. It’s so stupid. It’s just…who dreams up this nonsense is my question. And why would anyone propose such a stupid idea?” he said on the show.

When asked what he would do if any of his staff chose to go into “silent mode”, O’Leary said he would not hesitate to let them go.

“Yeah, the next moment, I just fire them,” he said.

Certainly, most Australian employees would probably have to answer their bosses’ calls in the scenarios proposed by O’Leary.

“If it was an emergency, of course people would expect an employee to respond to something like that,” Australian Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt said in an interview with Australia’s ABC News.

The law, Watt said, would instead focus on many mundane requests.

“But if it’s a regular thing, and let’s face it, we all get emails and phone calls like that from our boss about things that actually can wait until the next work day, then it should wait until the next work . day.”

Representatives for O’Leary did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.