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Europe’s Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)

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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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[–] vrek@programming.dev 21 points 4 months ago (16 children)

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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[–] GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] vrek@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

Ok granted I didn't take that into account. That's a good point.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They probably want to go to the AC'ed office.

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[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

But there they are forced to spend their already depleted resources, unless they go to nap

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[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Either you have a national policy of having ACs accessible to people, or if the temps don‘t drop below 24 C at night people get off work. Seems fair to me.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Respectfully, fuck off with your Fahrenheits.

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

527.68-531.67 R, is that better?

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Of all the things to be a whiney bitch about, you went with temperature conversions? Grow up, crybaby. Respectfully.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Ok I get that I should of converted...

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[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They're just numbers, they can't hurt you.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If spec says 30 degrees and you make it F instead of C, it can definitely hurt a lot of folks.

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[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

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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[–] Swemg@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] Swemg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

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