Press Release – WorkSafe NZ Today marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work and International Workers Memorial Day. It is a day that WorkSafe Chief Executive Phil Parkes says should not be passed over like any other. More than 500 people have gone to work and not come …
Today marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work and International Workers’ Memorial Day. It is a day that WorkSafe Chief Executive Phil Parkes says should not be passed over like any other.
More than 500 people have gone to work and not come home again in the last 10 years according to WorkSafe data. Many more have sustained life changing injuries or suffer poor health because of their work environment.
York city walls light up in memory of workers lost to pandemic YORK s city walls will light up in memory of key workers lost to the pandemic today amid calls for answers . From Hull or Leeds to Bradford, town halls across the region will glow purple to mark International Workers Memorial Day. A further national minute of silence will be held at midday to pay tribute to all working people who have died due to work in the past year. It comes as the Trades Union Congress (TUC) calls on Yorkshire s MPs to support an immediate public inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Press Release – WorkSafe NZ Today marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work and International Workers Memorial Day. It is a day that WorkSafe Chief Executive Phil Parkes says should not be passed over like any other. More than 500 people have gone to work and not come …
Today marks World Day for Safety and Health at Work and International Workers’ Memorial Day. It is a day that WorkSafe Chief Executive Phil Parkes says should not be passed over like any other.
More than 500 people have gone to work and not come home again in the last 10 years according to WorkSafe data. Many more have sustained life changing injuries or suffer poor health because of their work environment.
Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike
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NHS frontline staff outside the BBC last September depict the 640 healthcare workers that have died from Covid-19, the total deaths now number over 1,000
BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts as part of a month-long strike action over ‘bad faith’ by bosses who reneged on an upgrading pay agreement.
Their union Unite warned that the impact could mean the Accident & Emergency department at the Royal Blackburn Hospital will close at night and weekends.
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff lays a piece of coal at the workers’ memorial in Palmerston North s Memorial Park, with city mayor Grant Smith watching on.
An annual memorial to those who have died on the job is a reminder of the need to take mental health as seriously as workplace safety experts say. Nearly 100 people took part in the International Workers’ Memorial Day ceremony at Memorial Park and the Keep All Workers Safe conference in Palmerston North on Wednesday. For more than 10 years, Unions Manawatū and the city council have held the annual ceremony in remembrance of those who have died at work.