Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting

10 November 2026

EMPL European Parliament

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00:00 - 00:31
Speaker 4
the least protection.  Low-wage, precarious, seasonal, platform, migrant and posted workers, who often cannot afford to stop working, or are afraid to report unsafe conditions.  Seasonal and migrant agricultural workers are often living in overcrowded, overheated containers, or informal settlements.  And this, to say decent housing is therefore a precondition to, for safe work, too.  This report also highlights the cascading effects. 
00:31 - 00:50
Speaker 5
When schools, childcare facilities, care services, or public transport close, or reduce operations during heat waves, workers, disproportionately women, are forced to reduce their working time, which multiplies the economic losses, and widens gender gaps.  Protecting workers from- 
00:50 - 00:51
Translation is asking for a bit of slower pace. 
00:51 - 00:54
Speaker 2
Okay.  Do I have time for that? 

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