Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours As Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year. This year’s toll may be even higher, with 1,300 excess European deaths already connected to the June heatwave by the World Health Organization , and other estimates running as high as 20,000 . Continue reading...
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Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress
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