Unions across Europe are calling on governments to introduce legislation to safeguard workers from rising temperatures, after western Europe recorded its hottest June on record.

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    24 days ago

    I’m all for this AS LONG AS IT INCLUDES PROVISIONS FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED VS NOT. An office worker where there office is consistently between 68-72f should still go to work. A construction worker, gardener, road maintenance etc where they are out in the sun should totally be covered by this.

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      It’s not just the workplaces, it’s the housing. I don’t want people driving to work sleep deprived after they’ve struggled to sleep in a hot bedroom all night. Especially not en masse.

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      Found the manager. It’s still dangerous to travel in these temps. Transportation does break down, especially so in extreme weather.

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        Failure, I’m not a manager. I didn’t take transportation into account since I’ve been luck to have short commutes most of my life.

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      I am a carpenter, I work inside moat of the time. When it was 44°c out we had AC in the work place so it was nice, but I couldn’t sleep in my 35°c apartment at night so I was a zombie the whole day. It doesn’t really work that way my dude.

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        When I had no AC but work did, I absolutely preferred work to home when it was hot lol

        Of course, hot wave in my country is 30C, 35 tops. So far. It was never going to be lethal at least.

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          I was happy to be there yes but doing physical work is something else tho. Just wanted to sleep