{"id":1025,"date":"2016-04-27T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:27:01","slug":"europe-28-april-international-workers-memorial-day-new-health-and-safety-laws-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Europe: 28 April \u2013 International Workers Memorial Day – New health and safety laws now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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3,515 people died in reported accidents at work in the EU in 2012 \u2013 the last time the EU collected the statistics. 100,000 die in the EU every year from work-related cancers.<\/p>\n

The EU has done very little in recent years to strengthen the protection of workers from workplace diseases and injuries, despite the fact that new technology and innovation has created, and medical research has identified, new risks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorkers need better protection<\/em>,\u201d said Esther Lynch, ETUC Confederal Secretary. \u201cNew laws are needed now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most efficient and effective way to protect workers from workplace disease and injury is through laws at EU and national level. Workers\u2019 health protection should not be deregulated or privatised. Strong laws should be backed up by strong enforcement and a strong system of workplace health and safety representatives<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ETUC calls for new health and safety laws to be brought in urgently, to protect workers by<\/p><\/div>\n

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The ETUC is the voice of workers and represents 45 million members from 89 trade union organisations in 39 European countries, plus 10 European Trade Union Federations.<\/em><\/strong>
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Copyright \u00a9 2016 European Trade Union Confederation \/ Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration europ\u00e9enne des syndicats, All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n
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