Illegal immigrants without the right to healthcare

Eighty per cent of undocumented immigrants who are victims of accidents at work say they are not protected by public healthcare. This is partly due to national regulations but also, often, because workers do not report the accident. This is the picture painted by a report from Medicines du Monde, [...]

Going to work more dangerous than war

2.34
million

An estimated 2.34 million people die each year from work-related accidents and diseases. Of these, the vast majority (2.02 million) die from a wide range of work-related diseases. Of the estimated 6,300 work-related deaths that occur every day, 5,500 are caused by various types of occupational diseases. Furthermore, 160 million cases of non-fatal work-related diseases [...]

Italian companies guilty of 166,000 health & safety breaches

€175
million

Between 2009 and 2011, about 166,000 breaches by the Italian companies in the field of safety at work have been detected. For a total of €175.6 million of administrative and penal sanctions. In this time period, 482,155 companies were inspected and 646,450 visits were made. This is what emerges from the [...]

The keyboard is a major occupational hazard

2/3

In Italy, 2/3 of occupational diseases reported to the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work, are of musculoskeletal nature. I.e. around 30,500 out of a total of 46,500. To be noted that, in the last five years, their number has more than tripled. While, during the same period, [...]

Disability allowance in France kept at poverty threshold

The French government has clashed with the French Association of the Paralysed over the state's recent five-year anti-poverty plan. According to spokespersons for disabled rights, the proposal lacks concrete measures for the two million people with disabilities who currently live below the poverty line in France. President Hollande's proposal of [...]