Europe’s workplace stress kills around 10,000 people a year, according to a new study by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) presented on Monday 28 April to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day.
For the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), these figures illustrate “the urgent need for an EU directive on psychosocial risks at work”.
“There are 6,190 deaths annually through coronary heart disease which are attributable to psychosocial risks at work across the EU27...