This publication provides an overview of evidence and guidance on the growing challenge of workplace heat stress in the context of climate change. It highlights the health and productivity risks …
(article originally in Spanish) Unions say official statistics, which do not report a single death in 2024, do not capture the scale of the phenomenon. Other European countries suffer from …
It was 100 degrees in Baltimore the day Ronald Silver II died on the job last summer. He had already taken time off from his sanitation job that week to …
“My body is burning. But still there is no break at all. I have to complete [my] work… I am suffering [in the heat], but I have to do my …
The Inter-American Court issued its Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights. The ILAW Network submitted an amicus brief in this case. The Court held that all member …
Dangerous Heat Waves Are a Workers’ Rights Issue
he Labour Party’s flagship Employment Rights Bill is currently in the final stage of its legislative journey in the House of Lords. Peers are making a final round of amendments …