Right to cease activity in the event of serious and imminent environmental risk
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https://doi.org/10.24310/rejlss11202521919Keywords:
serious and imminent risk, environment, environmental law, health, environmental delegateAbstract
The analysis in this paper focuses on the concept of serious and imminent risk in the workplace, relating it to environmental protection both internally (the working environment and workers' health) and externally (the natural environment). The increase in external risks, such as adverse climatic phenomena or natural disasters, raises the need to extend the possibility of stopping work due to serious and imminent risk, on the one hand, to cases in which workers may be affected by such adverse weather conditions at work and, on the other, whether this right can be extended to environmental risks caused by the company itself, even if they do not directly and immediately affect workers' health. The link between people's health and the environment suggests that environmental damage may have a long-term impact on workers' health, which opens the debate on the extension of the right to work-related resistance.
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