With temperatures set near 40°C in parts of the UK this week, both employees and pupils could suffer from the heat in stuffy workplaces and classrooms.
Wednesday and Thursday will be the height of the heatwave, with the Met Office placing parts of central England, southern England and Wales under a rare red extreme heat alert.
But what does this mean for workplaces and schools?
While there is official guidance on the minimum indoor temperatures workplaces should adhere to, such information doesn’t exist for maximum temperatures.
“There’s not a legal maximum workplace temperature where we can say, if it hits X degrees, then we can down tools and leave. But that doesn’t mean that employers sort of have no duty,” Lucy Needham, employment solicitor at Lime Solicitors, told The i Paper.
