Calls for public inquiry into failure to protect workers during pandemic

摘要

Professor Raymond Agius,emeritus professor of occupationaland environmental medicine atthe University of Manchester, saysthere should be an independentpublic enquiry, such as a RoyalCommission, to investigateemployers who have failed toprotect workers at risk of COVID-19because of the kind of work that they do.. “The conclusion thatduring this pandemic thousands ofworkers may have been seriouslyjeopardised and denied thesafeguards that are theirs by rightis difficult to refute. Hopefullythese matters will be substantivelyaddressed by a wide rangingindependent public enquiry suchas a Royal Commission.”