After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers

[teach1st]

After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers
WLRN (South Florida), February 29, 2024

On extremely hot days, many outdoor workers in Florida often lack access to three basic accommodations: water, shade and rest breaks.

“The majority of our field workers suffer from heat stress,” Teresa Choc, an organizer with the Farmworker Association of Florida in Homestead, explained. “We’re the ones who put the food on everyone’s table, and it’s through arduous work in the sun.
...
But Republicans in the state legislature are trying to stop cities and counties from adopting local workplace heat standards.
...
If passed, not only would the legislation make all local heat protection measures "void and prohibited" — it would also delay the state’s 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]

1. OSHA? Sue DeSantis out of office.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. For what?

OSHA doesn't have a specific standard for heat protection.

Heat Standards

[hlthe2b]

9. They should have decades ago.

[Deuxcents]

2. These people are cruel and inhumane.

[lpbk2713]

5. That's a plus for most of them.

They like having that on their resume.

[Marcus IM]

3. Now this has freedumb written all over it.

Now, let's bring in more Cuban and Venezuelan right-wingers to vote republican. Yeah. That's the ticket!

[BigMin28]

4. With this

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]

6. Republicans dig shitholes wherever they govern. n/t

[Biophilic]

7. Of course, the bottom line is that most of the people affected aren't white.

Who would have ever guessed.

[3catwoman3]

10. I do not understand cruelty.

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.

[CaptainTruth]

11. Um, OSHA, anyone???