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Re:Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a v... by kaybe on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:42PM (#25050725)
> A fundamental law that governments should have is that your employer cannot harm your health.

A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

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Re:Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a v... by sleepysysadmin on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:54PM (#25050904)
>A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.)

The more I know about Germany's government the more I like about it.

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Re:Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a v... by dasKrokodil on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:59PM (#25051836)
There have been worse German governments than the current one.
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Re:Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a v... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:08PM (#25051139)
Pretty sure the Health & Safety at Work Act (UK) [1] meets this requirement. There's various common law things related to duty of care and negligence that probably apply less specifically too.

I'd really expect every democratic country to have some form of law requiring employers take care of their employees -- they should expect to do something in return for leeching off ones production of value.

[1] https://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/hswa.htm

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Re:Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a v... by Pyramus on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:42AM (#25056631)
That is correct, but the bar for enforcement is very high when it comes to mental health. E.g. I remember a case of a police officer suffering from depression (?) but "only" stressing folks out is not enough unfortunately.

In addition, you have to show a causal relationsship, which again is a lot more difficult for mental health as there are usually several factors at play even though work might be the pre-dominant one.

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