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The guidance page by SNES-FSU addressing the impact of extreme heat on working conditions in French schools can serve as inspiration to other organisations when their schools experience similar extreme weather conditions. It outlines the rights of education staff during heatwaves, including adjustments to working hours, access to drinking water, and the possibility of exercising alert and withdrawal rights in unsafe conditions. The page also highlights SNES-FSU’s advocacy efforts with the Ministry of Education, pushing for flexible exam schedules and better protection for vulnerable staff. It emphasizes the need for long-term investment in school infrastructure to adapt to climate change and ensure safe working environments.

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Publisher: Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU)
Country: France
Year of publication: 2025

Region: Europe
Topics: Climate change Physical health Working conditions
Available in: French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders
Resource type: Online ressource

In an interview with CAUT, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault discusses her national study on mental health across various professions, focusing on academia. The study highlights the high levels of anxiety and depression among academics due to heavy workloads, digital stress, and continuous peer evaluation. Bourgeault emphasizes the need for better mental health accommodations and support, particularly for contract academic staff who face job insecurity. She also addresses the gender gap in mental health research and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic staff's well-being.

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Publisher: Canadian Association of University Teachers
Country: Canada
Year of publication: 2025

Region: North America and the Caribbean
Topics: Mental health Pandemics and epidemics Right to disconnect and technology Women’s psychological and physical health Workload
Available in: English French
Categories of staff: Teachers Researchers
Level of education: Higher education and research
Resource type: Web page

The page presents the European Economic and Social Committee's (EESC) opinion on ensuring a needs-based work-life balance for all. It highlights the importance of adapting work-life balance strategies to address shifting demographics, new forms of work, and rising care demands. The EESC emphasizes the need for affordable, accessible, high-quality services that benefit workers, families, companies, and public authorities. It also stresses the importance of supporting care work and financial security for families and workers, viewing these as investments in society and the economy. The opinion calls for the assessment of work-life balance policies in EU companies and highlights the role of social dialogue in achieving this objective.

The resource can be downloaded in all available languages on the EESC website.

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Publisher: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Year of publication: 2024

Region: Europe
Topics: Women’s psychological and physical health Workload
Available in: German Danish Czech Bulgarian Spanish, Castilian English Greek, Modern French Irish Hungarian Finnish Estonian Lithuanian Latvian Dutch Portuguese Romanian, Moldovan Slovak Slovenian Swedish Italian Croatian Maltese Polish
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Researchers

The report explores the global prevalence of workplace violence and harassment, affecting over one in five workers. It emphasizes the urgent need for integrated strategies, such as the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190), national legal frameworks, and occupational safety and health protocols, to effectively combat these issues. The report also examines how evolving work conditions, including digitalization and blurred work-life boundaries, intensify these challenges, and highlights the role of collective bargaining and policy innovation in fostering safer, more respectful workplaces

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Physical health Safety Violence and harassment
Available in: English French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Union representatives
Resource type: Downloadable file

The video presents the main insights from the ILO report "Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate", highlighting how climate change, driven largely by human activities like fossil fuel use, is increasingly affecting workers' health and safety. The video emphasizes the urgent need for policies and practices that protect workers from climate-related risks such as extreme heat, air pollution, and natural disasters.

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Climate change Physical health Safety
Available in: English French Spanish, Castilian
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Union representatives
Resource type: Video

Climate change is already having serious impacts on the safety and health of workers in all regions of the world. Workers are among those most exposed to climate change hazards yet frequently have no choice but to continue working, even if conditions are dangerous. Global occupational safety and health protections have struggled to keep up with the evolving risks from climate change, resulting in worker mortality and morbidity. This report presents critical evidence related to the impacts of climate change on OSH, to bring attention to the global health threat workers are currently facing

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Climate change Physical health Safety
Available in: English French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Union representatives
Resource type: Downloadable file

The guide aims to support women suffering from endometriosis in the workplace. It provides detailed information on the challenges these women face and offers practical solutions for employers and managers. The guide includes recommendations such as additional leave days, flexible teleworking options, and creating a restful environment at work. It also emphasizes the importance of collective bargaining to improve working conditions and highlights the need for awareness and understanding of endometriosis among all workplace stakeholders.

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Publisher: Union nationale des syndicats autonomes - Education
Country: France
Year of publication: 2024

Region: Europe
Topics: Women’s psychological and physical health
Available in: French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders
Resource type: Web page

The guide aims to support victims of workplace accidents and their families. It provides comprehensive information on the steps to take and rights available following an accident. The guide includes ten detailed fact sheets covering topics such as defining a workplace accident, the consequences for employment contracts, preparing for a return to work, and obtaining compensation. It also addresses the involvement of various actors, the role of the criminal judge, and support for families in case of a fatal accident.

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Publisher: Union nationale des syndicats autonomes - Education Direction Générale du Travail (DGT)
Country: France
Year of publication: 2024

Region: Europe
Topics: Safety Working conditions
Available in: French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Researchers
Resource type: Web page

The article discusses the significant issue of workplace suffering, highlighting that 43% of workers report experiencing some form of suffering, with 7% facing severe distress. It emphasizes the urgent need for organizations to address physical and psychosocial risks, and calls for the recognition of work-related mental illnesses as occupational diseases. The UNSA stresses the importance of better information for workers about their rights and the necessity for companies to create healthier and safer working environments.

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Publisher: Union nationale des syndicats autonomes - Education
Country: France
Year of publication: 2024

Region: Europe
Topics: Mental health Physical health Safety Violence and harassment
Available in: French
Categories of staff: Teachers
Resource type: Web page

The course provides an introduction to social protection, covering different issues including the human right to social security, the need for social protection over the life cycle, the process of building universal social protection systems and the key role of social protection in confronting the major challenges that the world is facing.

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO) l’Ecole nationale supérieure de Sécurité sociale (EN3S)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Social protection
Available in: English French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Researchers
Resource type: Video

This briefing captures the recommendations of United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession that are focused on teacher well-being. Key recommendations include improving working conditions, ensuring mental health support, and promoting professional autonomy and development. The Panel calls for comprehensive national policies and multi-stakeholder commissions to enhance teacher well-being and support, particularly in crisis-affected regions.

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Publisher: Education International (EI)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Cross-cutting resource
Available in: English French Spanish, Castilian
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders
Resource type: Downloadable file

This policy brief outlines the importance of teacher and education support personnel (ESP) wellbeing to high quality education. It sets out a road map for education unions and their members on how to ensure that educational jurisdictions put in place practical strategies for enhancing the wellbeing of all teachers and ESP. All the evidence shows that student achievement is dependent on teachers and ESP who are positive about themselves and their ability to teach.

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Publisher: Education International (EI)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Cross-cutting resource
Available in: English French Spanish, Castilian
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Researchers
Specific communities: Ethnic minorities Indigenous Peoples LGBTIQA+ Women
Resource type: Downloadable file

Resolution on wellbeing for quality education, adopted in 2024 by the 10th EI World Congress. The resolution highlights the lack of robust global research on this topic, the impact of poor wellbeing on education quality, and called for comprehensive policies and practices to support teacher and ESP mental health and wellbeing, especially in crisis and conflict settings.

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Publisher: Education International (EI)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Cross-cutting resource
Available in: English French Spanish, Castilian
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Researchers
Resource type: Web page

This document presents the Recommendations of the The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession that was convened by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. It emphasizes the urgent need to address the global shortage of teachers and improve their working conditions, salaries, and professional development. It advocates for investing in teachers through competitive salaries, quality training, and continuous professional development, while promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion to attract and retain marginalized groups. The document also highlights the importance of enhancing the status and dignity of the teaching profession, encouraging innovation and leadership among teachers, and integrating education for sustainable development, peace, and democracy into teaching practices. Collaborative efforts among governments, educational institutions, and international organizations are deemed essential for effective implementation of these recommendations.

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Year of publication: 2024

Topics: Cross-cutting resource
Available in: English French Spanish, Castilian Arabic
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders
Specific communities: Women
Resource type: Downloadable file

This guide describes the requirements set out in the fundamental OSH Conventions, the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) and the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health, 2006 (No. 187), recognizing the complementarity of these two instruments to ensure good OSH governance at national level and sound OSH management at workplace level. To provide further guidance about the implementation of Conventions Nos 155 and 187, the publication also includes key provisions from the accompanying Recommendations 164 and 197.

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Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Year of publication: 2023

Topics: Physical health Safety Working conditions
Available in: English Spanish, Castilian French
Categories of staff: Teachers Education support personnel School leaders Union representatives
Resource type: Downloadable file

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Heatwave: your rights, our interventions

Interview with Ivy Lynn Bourgeault on mental health

Ensuring a needs-based work-life balance for all: How adequate flexible working conditions can support intergenerational solidarity and the empowerment of women

Preventing and addressing violence and harassment in the world of work through occupational safety and health measures

Key findings on climate change and occupational safety and health

Ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate

Better understanding and action for workers with endometriosis

Guiding victims of workplace accidents and their families

Suffering at work: an underestimated issue?

Making universal social protection a reality

Activating the recommendations on teacher well-being

Teacher and education support personnel well-being : Vital for education

Teacher and ESP wellbeing and mental health: vital for quality education - Resolution from the 10th World Congress

Recommendations and summary of deliberations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession (2024)

The fundamental conventions on occupational safety and health