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DeSantis OKs law forbidding local governments from setting heat-exposure rules for workers
(www.orlandosentinel.com)
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The shitty thing about this is that the businesses will probably be fine. This sort of heat causes chronic dehydration which won’t kill their workers immediately.
But it will kill them through destroying their kidneys and the like. But I’m sure these psychopaths will think they will just be able to hire some other poor person to fill the spot.