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Europe’s Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
(novaramedia.com)
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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.
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.
Ok granted I didn't take that into account. That's a good point.
They probably want to go to the AC'ed office.
But there they are forced to spend their already depleted resources, unless they go to nap
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.
Respectfully, fuck off with your Fahrenheits.
Of all the things to be a whiney bitch about, you went with temperature conversions? Grow up, crybaby. Respectfully.
527.68-531.67 R, is that better?
Ok I get that I should of converted...
They're just numbers, they can't hurt you.
If spec says 30 degrees and you make it F instead of C, it can definitely hurt a lot of folks.
Found the manager. It's still dangerous to travel in these temps. Transportation does break down, especially so in extreme weather.
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.
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.
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.
I was happy to be there yes but doing physical work is something else tho. Just wanted to sleep