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Not standard everywhere: fan in the office
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The Left has worked out a concept for »climate adaptation in labor law«.
In it, she calls for working hours to be reduced by 25 percent from a temperature of 26 degrees at the workplace, a right to sufficient water and sun protection and an additional ten minute break per hour.
The paper is available to SPIEGEL.
From a temperature of 30 degrees, the working time should be halved and there should be a right to fans, as well as ten minutes break every half hour.
"If the workplace is at temperatures above 35 degrees, the workplace is considered unsuitable," says the concept.
Companies then needed a special permit.
The temperature at the workplace is decisive for the regulation.
"As soon as the outside temperature rises above 26 degrees, the employer must be obliged to take temperature measurements." If there is no measurement, the outside temperature is decisive.
"Heat must be taken just as seriously in occupational safety as the quality of the screen or the right to take breaks," says Linken Federal Managing Director Jörg Schindler.
Since all climate protection measures are aimed at limiting warming, but not reversing the changes that have already been made, an adaptation of the workplace ordinance is necessary.
"It is the employer's responsibility to ensure reasonable working conditions, and it is overdue that the temperatures are adequately taken into account," says Schindler.
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