"Yesterday, #California regulators voted to establish #heat protections for indoor workers for the first time.

#Florida proactively passed legislation that would block any future local #HeatProtections for workers, and #Texas passed a law to eliminate the bare minimum form of protection, mandated water breaks for construction workers.

Most states, though, simply have no laws on the books to address the risk of work-related heat illness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/06/heat-working-heat-stress-death/678758/

Workers are dying from #ExtremeHeat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?

Spoiler: because employers put profit before the people who bring in the profit.

"The campaign was straight from a playbook that industry groups across the country have deployed to fight worker #HeatProtections in recent years: claiming that regulations already address heat illness, businesses already protect workers, and that a one-size-fits-all approach will be costly and ineffective. "

https://grist.org/accountability/outdoor-worker-extreme-heat-protections-labor-law-osha/