On Friday 26 April, on the eve of International Workers’ Memorial Day, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) warned of studies revealing that the number of people dying at work due to extreme heat is rising faster in the European Union than in any other region of the world, according to a press release.
According to estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO), 80,800 people suffered heat-related injuries at work in 2020, and 67 of them died.
In the EU, the number of...