Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours As Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year. This year’s toll may be even higher, with 1,300 excess European deaths already connected to the June heatwave by the World Health Organization , and other estimates running as high as 20,000 . Continue reading...