Some are likely to remember the heat -free days at school. Sometimes the situation is not so clear in professional life. At which temperatures the workplace is no longer reasonable and what needs to happen, more than the following.
No right to heat -free: employer, however, in the duty of driving care
Often the heat alone is difficult to bear who still has to work at these temperatures, it will then hit twice. The right to heat -free would not exist, write infranken.de. Not even at extreme temperatures. But what the employer has to do must ensure that the office position does not become a health burden for the workforce. There is a so -called duty of care, explains the article.
The IG Metall union explains that the temperature in work rooms should not exceed a threshold of 26 degrees. Accordingly, the factories and offices should be so isolated that the interior temperature, even if it gets warmer outside, cannot exceed 26 degrees.
If the temperature increases to over 30 degrees, IG Metall supplements on its website, then the employer must take the necessary steps to further reduce the climatic loads. The ventilation can then be run through at night, ventilation in early morning hours and the blinds could also be closed outside of working hours.
In the home office, however, the employees themselves are obliged to make working conditions tolerable.
Employees should have a say: But what if the boss does not react?
On the Workrechte.de website, it is explained on the subject of heat-free that if the temperature in a labor or social space increases to over 35 degrees, no employee can no longer be requested to stay there for work purposes.
The article also goes into the fact that the works council is of course also committed to the employee as part of the heat load. However, a regulation only provides that the employees should present concepts in the event of the heat to get the problem under control. However, it can be proven to the management personnel that this health of the employees has been deliberately put in danger, then a fine or even prison sentence can threaten.
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