Protecting workers

There are some people who can continue to work with little inconvenience during heatwaves.

Working in an air conditioned office may lead to an uncomfortable commute, but once in the office, the temperatures outside become irrelevant.

This story from 2023 showed some early thoughts on the need to add protections for workers who worked outside.

US President Biden pledges to ramp up heat-related worker protections as more than 100 million Americans affected by heatwave https://t.co/cMLFX8yDVe pic.twitter.com/4fca286nWo

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 27, 2023

This is a social justice issue too, as the jobs that people do places them at risk, and once again those who are poorer are at greater risk than those who can stay in air-conditioned offices or even work from home. 

Of course in the years since, little has happened, and the current incumbent of the (partly-demolished) White House is not likely to worry too much about the people who do his bidding...

There have also, ahead of this week's forecast record-breaking temperatures been renewed calls for temperature limits to be imposed for schools and classrooms.