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Related: About this forumAfter record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers
After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workersWLRN (South Florida), February 29, 2024
The majority of our field workers suffer from heat stress, Teresa Choc, an organizer with the Farmworker Association of Florida in Homestead, explained. Were the ones who put the food on everyones table, and its through arduous work in the sun.
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But Republicans in the state legislature are trying to stop cities and counties from adopting local workplace heat standards.
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If passed, not only would the legislation make all local heat protection measures "void and prohibited" it would also delay the states authority to enact its own heat standards until 2028.
https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-02-29/heat-protections-workers-florida-miami-legislation-hb433
See also hatrack's post in the Environment & Energy forum from three days ago.
hlthe2b
(106,329 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(60,920 posts)OSHA doesn't have a specific standard for heat protection.
Heat Standards
hlthe2b
(106,329 posts)Deuxcents
(19,694 posts)lpbk2713
(43,201 posts)They like having that on their resume.
Marcus IM
(3,001 posts)Now, let's bring in more Cuban and Venezuelan right-wingers to vote republican. Yeah. That's the ticket!
BigMin28
(1,458 posts)And a law working its way through the state legislature taking away lunch breaks from workers, when will people wake up? Last year here in Texas, they said employers aren't required to give water breaks to those that work outside. If you have ever experienced a Texas summer, you can't help but see the cruelty of these people.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,522 posts)Biophilic
(4,736 posts)Who would have ever guessed.
3catwoman3
(25,430 posts)I cry over ASPCA commercials. I p33ut spiders outside when I find them. I pick up worms off the sidewalk and driveway after rainstorms and put them in the grass so they won't dry out and die.
To intentionally cause suffering, and relish doing so, is subhuman.