COVID-19 is already an occupational disease, and this changes the responsibility of employers and forces us to rethink workers’ safety.
rethinking rights and responsibilities for a safer workplace
Access to rights and collective representation through unions is vital to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. It is vital to ensuring collective action and cooperation. It is vital to ensuring that we are doing this. It is also vital to tackling the post-COVID-19 crisis and recession. By ignoring unions and refusing to negotiate the changes necessary to ensure a safe workplace in this catastrophic pandemic, employers are increasing risk and creating doubt, leaving millions of workers with the obvious question: if we’re working together to overcome COVID-19 … who exactly is “we”?
Lives at stake – rights and responsibilities for a safer workplace fes.asia coronabriefs