10 minutes to cool down and hydrate every four hours.
This was the laws they found so egregious that they had to overrule them at the state level? I work at a desk in my temperature controlled house where I get to set the AC and I take ten minutes every couple hours to stretch and hydrate.
I work an outdoor job in another hot state. We typically take a water and shade break every forty-five minutes or so for about fifteen minutes. Not having those breaks, especially when we're in head to toe PPE, would kill most of us and we're used to it.
My gf worked at a warehouse in San Antonio for a few years, and would get heatstroke symptoms near-daily. I don’t get how this will even increase productivity if everyone’s constantly recovering from hyperthermia.
Where do you get labor from if you injure all your laborers to make a point?
I wouldn’t feel safe in Texas even at an airport making a connection.
I guess they argue if giving water increases productivity, companies will do it without a law mandating it. This ignores the fact that beancounters are not always practical, and people will die of heatstroke before eventually the least reasonable companies disappear.
It's so sad that there's 30 million Texans yet the 2022 election only saw 8 million total votes... then again there's insane voter suppression in the entire state. So, Abbott winning by less than 1 million votes is kind of interesting.
Gotta wonder just how many of those construction workers either don't bother to vote (bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!), or vote republican (at least we ain't got no 'Murica-hatin' libruls!), like a frog in the pot demanding that the stove be cranked up to high.
You’ve a point but In fairness to the folk with the first viewpoint, the Democrats and Republicans were not much different till 2012ish. Maybe a bit earlier. I seem to recall it was around that time I caught the first real scent of stupid from the Republicans. Before that it was just the occasional wiff, which happened just as frequently around Democrats. “I know what an Assult Rifle is, I’ve seen them on TV”.
As for the “frogs” I can’t decide if Darwin was wrong or if the Democrats keep saving their stubborn asses.
I think the republicans truly went off the rails when Obama was elected. It broke them. the seeds were planted by 90s Newt Gingrich, and obviously Reagan before that, though.
Is this the law where local government can’t pass laws/regs that aren’t “in-line” with state laws? Or is this a separate law specifically targeting water breaks? (I seriously can’t decide which is worse)