The French left has just made several proposals to Parliament to support employees having to suffer from the heat wave.
With increasingly significant global warming, new questions are emerging, including those of working conditions, which then become particularly complicated. In this context, La France Insoumise has just tabled a new bill to prevent employees from suffering too much.
A flexible working time?
The heat wave is as much drought as a disrupted daily life, especially in the workplace. On the strength of this observation, the deputies Mathilde Panot and Caroline Fiat tabled in Parliament a bill intended to ” adapt the Labor Code to the consequences of global warming “.
In order to avoid tragedies linked to excessive heat, 6 fatal work accidents having been listed last August by Santé Publique France as potentially linked to the heat wave, they are proposing the establishment of new rights. Thus, they suggest reducing the daily working time to 6 hours when level 3 of meteorological vigilance is reached, and stopping the activity at level 4.
Of the ” regular break times without loss of pay when the temperature exceeds a certain threshold in an indoor or outdoor workplace are also mentioned, this threshold must differ according to the territory in which the worker is located, and according to his profession.
Towards a new right of withdrawal?
The situation could indeed require a change in the Labor Code, which does not provide for staying at home when temperatures reach worrying levels. Testimonies evoke employees having to work indoors without air conditioning while the thermometer is very high, precisely because of the absence of this type of provision.
This situation could well change, since environmentalists have followed suit and put on the table 20 emergency measures, intended to ” spend the summer “. One of them, which would be included in the Labor Code, would allow any employee to exercise a right of withdrawal as soon as the temperature reaches 33°C. Until such measures are put in place, we have listed some tips for you to avoid overheating your computer equipment during this period of high heat.
Sources: BFM TV, Opinion
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