Urgent action needed to end workplace fatalities
WORKERS continuing to die or face brutality while trying to earn a living is symptomatic of a systemic failure to properly uphold labour rights. In the first half of 2025, at least 422 workers died in 373 workplace-related incidents, as the Safety and Rights Society says. Traffic accidents caused 267 of the death, with the transport sector alone accounting for 207 fatalities. Many of...