EU/ A trialogue agreement to protect workers from carcinogenic chemical agents. European workers in the sectors of nickel-cadmium battery production, zinc and copper smelting, laboratories, electronics, funerals and embalming, construction, health care, plastics, and recycling, will soon have further protection from carcinogenic chemicals risks. On 29 January 2019, the EU Parliament, Council of Ministers, and Commission agreed to add a further five agents to the list of carcinogenic and mutagenic agents that are either to be banned or their use restricted in the workplace. The additional agents are: Cadmium and its inorganic compounds, Beryllium and inorganic beryllium compounds, Arsenic acid and its salts, as well as inorganic arsenic compounds, Formaldehyde, and 4,4′-Methylene-bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA).
News update as of January 31, 2019
On the menu: a trialogue agreement to protect workers from carcinogenic chemical agents, in the US Teamsters union wants Amazon to accept unionized labor in New York, agreement at Audi Hungary after 6 days of strike action, in Spain an app that monitors employee working time and that will be able to meet future legal requirements, in India, a Digital tool to facilitate transitioning from the informal to the formal economy.
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