[mamonster]

>The union said employers should take steps to cool down workplaces once temperatures exceed 24C, with workers able to stop working if temperatures reach 30C, or 27C for those doing manual labour or working outdoors.

Geneva already has a version of this. You have to stop outside work at 13h00 unless it's necessary, in which case you have to take 45min breaks for every 15 minutes of work. However the threshold isn't 27C but rather like 32C (from what I understand)

[DicIfTEx]

So do several countries, as listed here at https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/climate-crisis-requires... :

> Belgium: 29°C for light physical workload, 26°C for a moderately heavy physical workload, 22°C at heavy physical workload and 18°C at very heavy physical workload

> Hungary: 31°C for sedentary and light physical work, 29°C for moderately physical work and 27°C for heavy physical work

> Latvia: Maximum working temperature for indoor work of 28°C

> Montenegro: Maximum working temperature for outdoor work of 36°C

> Slovenia: The air temperature in work areas must not exceed 28 °C

(although I don't see any obvious similarities between the countries that do and don't have such protections, but based on that list it does seem that former Yugoslav and Soviet states are overrepresented)

[em-bee]

take 45min breaks for every 15 minutes of work

i guess you meant the reverse?

[antisthenes]

Have you ever tried playing a sport in 32C and high humidity?

It's 45 min break.

[mamonster]

No, I literally meant that. It's an alternative to not working at all.

[em-bee]

is it really an alternative? i'd rather do a 4 hour night shift without breaks than working 8 hours like this in the heat. what am i supposed to do with a 45 minute break? if i am a bricklayer or example, i'd still be stuck on a badly cooled construction site. seems totally not worth it to me. even worse considering that normally breaks are not paid.

if we assume that this is the middle of the day, so i work 2 hours normally, then 4 hours with 45 minute breaks and then another 2 hours normally, i might as well just work 2.5hours normally, take a 3 hour break and then work another 2.5 hours normally.

so no, really, i don't see any benefit in that arrangement.

[spdionis]

normally breaks are not paid? in the us maybe

[em-bee]

breaks are not work time. you are entitled to breaks, but unless they are quick bathroom breaks they don't count as work, and in places where you have to stamp in to start work you actually have to stamp out for each break. at least that's the law in germany. since germany is one of the countries with stronger employee protection globally, i can hardly imagine any country offering more than this.

[toasty228]

Lmao, go work in construction a single day when it's 30c in the shade and come back to enlight us