The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency conducted several unannounced inspections during weekends in 2023, targeting the use of foreign labor on construction sites across Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo, and Tuusula. These actions underscore the agency s role as the regional authority in enforcing workplace safety and labor laws.
Hostels for 60,000 workers are being built in Tamil Nadu s Sriperumbudur as Bharat FIH and other contract manufacturers, such as Foxconn International s India unit, Pegatron, and Tata Electronics, aim to expand iPhone manufacturing in India. The rise in domestic mobile phones and electronics production in India has been fueled by the PLI scheme, resulting in $15 billion worth of exports from April to October 2023. However, the contract labor regime in India has faced worker-led disruptions and concerns of exploitation.
The Finnish Register of Occupational Diseases has recently published its data for the years 2019 and 2020, revealing a notable shift in the trend of occupational diseases due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of a consistent downward trend, 2020 saw an increase in the number of recognized cases.
In 2019, 1,067 cases of occupational diseases were recognized, with 710 of these cases occurring in the working-age population.
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Last month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published its annual National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. This latest report covers data from 2022 and tragically shows a one-year increase in fatal work injuries of 5.7 percent., , , , For 2022, there were 5,486 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States, an increase from the 5,190 in 2021. The fatal work injury rate was 3.7 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, up from 3.6 per 100,000 FTE in 2021 an.