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DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

The law, House Bill 433, blocks local governments from several activities, including setting a minimum wage higher than that of the state or federal governments. It also restricts local authorities from “[r]equiring an employer, including an employer contracting with the political subdivision, to meet or provide heat exposure requirements not otherwise required under state or federal law” or “[g]iving preference, or considering or seeking information, in a competitive solicitation to an employer based on the employer’s heat exposure requirements,” according to a summary released by the Legislature.

No one is allowed to do anything except desantis. Very authoritarian. It's also a way to ensure no one can compete on workplace safety. Ensuring everywhere is just as stupidly dangerous.

Fuck desantis.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The sole purpose of this bill is to make your life worse. There is not a single appreciable benefit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There is not a single appreciable benefit.

It'll keep the cost down for businesses. Edit: that's likely why Republicans made this happen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It won't even do that, heatstroke causes a pretty big operating loss.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's mindless and stupid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is neither. This is calculated and cruel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

"I like him! He's for the little guy!"

"Little guys should melt in the sun."

"Wow. What a dreamboat 😍"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation barring local and municipal governments from requiring their own heat protections for workers.

The bill’s passage comes after the state’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country.

That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.

“Instead of addressing the skyrocketing insurance crisis or protecting our workforce, the Governor chose to abandon millions of hard-working Floridians and leave our state even more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” Sierra Club Florida Political Director Luigi Guadarrama said in a statement.

“Instead of offering real solutions for working families, HB433 will endanger the health and lives of thousands of outdoor workers in our state.”

Another confounding variable is the challenge of incorporating noncitizens, including immigrants lacking permanent legal status and guest workers, into the data.

The original article contains 469 words, the summary contains 159 words. Saved 66%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Voting matters 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

"evil" is a really particular word. It's hard to call most people "evil" even if they are an objective drain in the world at large, but these people are evil.