you don't need it!
you don't need it!
I don't get it. Shouldn't it be at least optional?
Edit: now that I read it, the ban is on municipalities mandating these protections.
Maybe I misunderstood it a bit, but it seems like any business that goes above the minimum required by state law could be punished for it.
No it looks like it's a ban on regulatory authorities from mandating heat protections on companies that go above state mandates. It reads to me like companies could still provide them, but are under no obligation to provide anything above the state mandates minimum. The headline is poorly written.
When they say agencies they mean local government bodies.
Ah ok, not as cartoonishly evil as I thought, but still pretty awful.
I think its safe to assume that companies (in Florida, using exploitative labor already) will spend as little as possible on the safety of their employees
But...why? Seems like the goal is to just have all their blue collar workers die of heat stroke. Doesn't really seem very profitable to me, but I'm not a genius capitalist pulling the strings of the US government, so I clearly just am too plebian to understand the benefits.
GCC states get demonized for the treatment of migrant workers and a lot of it is justified. But at least all of them are moving to have heat protection laws in place!
https://www.newarab.com/news/qatar-takes-action-protect-workers-extreme-heat
