Amazon India Workers Union (AIWU) submitted detailed recommendations to the Ministry of Labour and Employment calling for binding heat safety standards under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) …
Amazon India Workers Union (AIWU) submitted detailed recommendations to the Ministry of Labour and Employment calling for binding heat safety standards under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) …
This ITUC guide supports trade unions in promoting Just Transition by applying Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) in the workplace and across supply chains. It equips unions with tools to …
Far-right parties joined forces with the centre-right in the European Parliament on Thursday to back further cuts to the bloc’s corporate sustainability laws, after months of pressure from companies and …
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. It says the world’s …
At the end of July, the Frankfurter Rundschau ran an alarming headline: “First country on Earth to become uninhabitable—alarming forecast.” The island nation of Tuvalu in the South Pacific will most likely …
Super Typhoon Ragasa rampaged across East and South-East Asia this week, renewing questions about how global employers can protect employees’ health and wellbeing from ever more deadly and frequent natural …
Amazon warehouse staff in India are still being forced to work in temperatures as high as 55C and the majority feel conditions are too hot to be safe, according to …
Will the European Union Protect Workers from Deadly Heat?
Last 10 December, the Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work (ACSH)—the tripartite body that assists the European Commission in preparing, implementing, and evaluating occupational safety and health (OSH) policy—issued its …