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Florida Senate passes bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 8 months ago

"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.

[-] Spazz@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago

Stop it.

Stop pretending this is anything other than an attack on workers, there's no excuse

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

What do you think happens when a city opts to make a really shitty heat policy because "fuck em", then a company works someone to death in the heat and their family has issues even suing or getting much from the company because instead of "our company policy on weather was garbage and not good enough" it's a case of "we were following the cities safety protocols".

The state needs to make a good policy for it. Not let dozens of different ones, or choosing to not have one at all, happen.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The state needs to make a good policy for it

Great! But are they?

In true ex-Reddit fashion I didn’t read the article, but what I see here is only preventing locales from creating their own worker safety rules. If this is a two-parter establishing consistent rules across the state, people would be all for it. However it’s not. It’s only negative. It’s only consolidation of power without implementing that good policy. It’s only preventing other layers of government from improving worker safety

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