MEPs Call for Burnout To Be Formally Recognised As Occupational Disease

The European Parliament is pushing for stronger protections against work-related stress, depression and anxiety, including measures to tackle excessive workloads and give employees a right to disconnect outside working hours. The European Parliament called on Tuesday for stronger EU action to tackle burnout, stress and other work-related conditions, addressing an increasingly common problem among European workers as digitalisation and AI reshape the workplace. MEPs want new rules to recognise that psychosocial risks, including harassment, excessive workloads and unpredictable working hours, can give rise to occupational diseases, including mental health disorders. To discuss this further and to highlight the support currently available to workers in Clare was Caitlín McConn, operations manager at GrowRemote. Photo (c) Karola G from Pexels via Canva