you don’t need it!
you don’t need it!
Dismantling Heat Protections in DEATHLY HEAT is just Pro Life Republicans delivering ANOTHER WIN for the Working Class Voters!
Worker’s comp and wrongful death lawyers like
Maybe not the most tasteful emoji to use in this situation 😄
Conservatives are cartoonishly evil. If something is the wrong thing to do, you absolutely know they’ll be on it like flies on shit.
I don’t get it. Shouldn’t it be at least optional?
Edit: now that I read it, the ban is on municipalities mandating these protections.
Maybe I misunderstood it a bit, but it seems like any business that goes above the minimum required by state law could be punished for it.
No it looks like it’s a ban on regulatory authorities from mandating heat protections on companies that go above state mandates. It reads to me like companies could still provide them, but are under no obligation to provide anything above the state mandates minimum. The headline is poorly written.
When they say agencies they mean local government bodies.
It’s specifically a ban on sub-state-level political subdivisions mandating protections beyond what the state level does. But the state of Florida doesn’t have any mandated protections, so it would be whatever OSHA says, and OSHA doesn’t either. Miami required employers to provide water breaks and the ghouls freaked out. I can’t imagine the level of dysfunction in Florida.
Well… OSHA does and it does not, While OSHA does not have any standard in the OSH act there is a clause 5A1 that more or less says “you cant make your employees do something that is dangerous” so an OSHA inspector can cite them for that… and that is how heat is regulated by OSHA under that status quo… but that means its more or less up to the inspector, and how much extra paperwork they are willing to do
Ah ok, not as cartoonishly evil as I thought, but still pretty awful.
I think its safe to assume that companies (in Florida, using exploitative labor already) will spend as little as possible on the safety of their employees
But…why? Seems like the goal is to just have all their blue collar workers die of heat stroke. Doesn’t really seem very profitable to me, but I’m not a genius capitalist pulling the strings of the US government, so I clearly just am too plebian to understand the benefits.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Literally the only policy rationale the GOP has. They have moved beyond merely acting out of self-interest. Now the algorithm is just an inversion function of anything liberals want.
The GOP seems to be so used to just being used as a “boogeyman” by the dems, that they don’t even try to govern anymore. 'Merica is fucked.
“Fuck ‘em. There are always more desperate people we can abuse.”
They’ve finally started adapting to climate change, guys!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Florida State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit local agencies from implementing heat protections for workers.
The GOP-controlled Senate voted 28-11 to pass the bill, which would ban cities and counties from adopting mandatory water breaks and other extreme heat relief measures that go beyond what is required by state or federal law.
Supporters of the bill say it will establish uniform regulations instead of having inconsistent rules across the state, NBC News first reported.
Labor organizations are pushing back, arguing that heat protections are necessary for safety, particularly for those who work in construction and agriculture.
It comes just after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that 2023 was the hottest single year ever recorded.
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.
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arigato mr. roboto
Right in time for climate change induced heatwaves.
GCC states get demonized for the treatment of migrant workers and a lot of it is justified. But at least all of them are moving to have heat protection laws in place!
https://www.newarab.com/news/qatar-takes-action-protect-workers-extreme-heat
