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…
Sure, but there aren’t any other rules, so what you get is employers putting people in danger:
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.
Or as the first manager of my last job said “I don’t have to give you SHIT except 20 minutes for lunch, and ONLY if your ass is here for 8 hours or more”
If they can get away with giving you nothing, then nothing is what you will get.
Sure, but there aren’t any other rules, so what you get is employers putting people in danger:
Which is the whole point of this.
Or as the first manager of my last job said “I don’t have to give you SHIT except 20 minutes for lunch, and ONLY if your ass is here for 8 hours or more”
If they can get away with giving you nothing, then nothing is what you will get.
Hence when I said the state should make a set of good ones. It shouldn’t be a county to county and city to city issue.
Then, if you did vote to to make it one, what of all the cities that don’t make a policy? Or make a shitty one?
One easy option would be: we have a minimum standard, and people can choose something stricter if local conditions warrant.