'Better Regulation’ to make things worse: industry tactics to delay and weaken workplace cancer law
"Our new report shows how industry lobbies present employee protection against work-related cancers as an ‘unnecessary’ burden on companies, and explains which tactics they use to weaken and delay the EU’s revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. In the EU alone, over 100,000 people...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| Format: | TEXT |
| Language: | English |
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Brussels
2016
Corporate Europe Observatory |
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19399397124911175799--Better-Regulation’-to-make-th.htm |
| Summary: | "Our new report shows how industry lobbies present employee protection against work-related cancers as an ‘unnecessary’ burden on companies, and explains which tactics they use to weaken and delay the EU’s revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. In the EU alone, over 100,000 people a year die due to insufficient protection against cancer-causing substances in the workplace, which makes this lobbying a real threat to public health." |
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| Physical Description: | 27 p. Digital |