I worked for the better part of a decade on a golf course in Florida doing manual labor. There were a few instances of guys getting heat stroke and having to go to the ER while I was employed there. That's WITH bosses who drove around during the hot months with ice water and Gatorade for us and made sure we were taking breaks. This makes me sick...
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Turn off the A/C at the statehouse.
They have to abide by the federal standards. Oh okay.
There are no federal standards. What the goddamn fuck. Orphan crushing machine isn't supposed to be a literal label!
"Supporters of the bill say it will establish uniform regulations instead of having inconsistent rules across the state, NBC News first reported."
I agree with this. There's shouldn't be a dozen different water break policies across a state. Especially when it effects a lot of people in lawn care and construction and road work that go all over the place for jobs. There should only be one good set of regulations for breaks and temp and humidity and what have you that blanket covers the state. There isn't any good reason that every city or county should each have their own. The state needs to make a good one.
The state and the federal government don't have one. This is actually to prevent any protections from being put in place at all.
Sure, but there aren't any other rules, so what you get is employers putting people in danger:
Florida employers would be required to follow general rules set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which has not yet issued standards for dangerously high temperatures, NBC News noted.
Which is the whole point of this.
Or as the first manager of my last job said "I don't have to give you SHIT except 20 minutes for lunch, and ONLY if your ass is here for 8 hours or more"
If they can get away with giving you nothing, then nothing is what you will get.
Stop it.
Stop pretending this is anything other than an attack on workers, there's no excuse
Everything in FL comes down to how can be we as cruel or racist/hateful as possible in terms of policy.
Not to defend this action, but under the theory that politics selects for narcissistic sociopaths …. It may “simply” be consolidating their own personal power without caring what affects it has on others
Supporters of the bill say it will establish uniform regulations instead of having inconsistent rules across the state...
That doesn't sound too bad.
Florida employers would be required to follow general rules set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which has not yet issued standards for dangerously high temperatures.
Oh...