Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress

According to The Guardian, trade unions across Europe are pressing for new laws to protect workers from deadly heat stress as the continent's summer swelter drags on. They point to an estimated two hundred thirty workplace deaths a year linked to extreme heat, and want legal temperature limits, a right to heat breaks, and adjusted working hours. This year's toll could be far worse: the World Health Organization has connected roughly thirteen hundred excess European deaths to June's heatwave, while some other estimates run as high as twenty thousand.

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