Brits call on government to ban working in heatwave
This is the sort of weather where you walk a couple of steps and you start to feel yourself sweating.
No matter how little layers you wear, or how strong your handheld fan is whirring, you can still feel the make-up you’ve applied starting to drip down your face, or the sweatiness of your hair after you’ve walked down the road.
In fact, one woman is so mad at the soaring temperatures, that she made a very strong statement about it.
Jenna B, who posts on TikTok as @j_bal4 posted a video of her looking very hot and bothered, despite the fact she was rocking jean shorts and a T-shirt.
“When you start sweating as soon as you leave the house”, she penned over the top of the video.
She was fanning herself with her hands, with a voiceover that said “I have never been so frustrated in my life”.
But it was in the caption that she made her hilariously bold claim. She penned: “Should be illegal to travel in 29 degrees to be honest”.
People agree with her – with some even saying you shouldn’t have to go to work when it’s this hot outside.
Sadly, in the UK, “There’s no law for maximum working temperature, or when it’s too hot to work, because every workplace is different”, according to the Health and Safety Executive.
“No meaningful upper limit can be imposed because in many indoor workplaces high temperatures are not seasonal but created by work activity, for example in bakeries or foundries.”
However, Acas said that “ by law, employers have a ‘duty of care’ to make sure working temperatures are reasonable for their staff.”
In the comments, someone responded: “No because I’m on the train where there’s air conditioning but I’m still sweating so badly”.
Jenna replied: “A whole mood.”
@jessmsheppard took to TikTok to admit that she was so warm working from home that she was going to work from a coffee shop.
She explained that she wanted to make use of the air con, saying it was worth the price of a coffee to be colder, encouraging others to do the same thing.
