India, March 3 -- Nearly nine of 10 garment workers surveyed in India feel that extreme heat inside factories was making them sick, according to a new report that links rising temperatures to a growing workplace health and labour rights emergency.

As many as 87 per cent of workers reported suffering from headaches, dizziness and muscle cramps during the summer months, while 78.3 per cent said the heat on their workstations is so intense that their workstations felt like "working in a furnace."

The findings were part of a new report, Breaking Point: Heat and the Garment Floor by HeatWatch and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), which looked at how extreme heat is endangering the lives, health, and livelihoods of India's garment...