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…
What do you think happens when a city opts to make a really shitty heat policy because “fuck em”, then a company works someone to death in the heat and their family has issues even suing or getting much from the company because instead of “our company policy on weather was garbage and not good enough” it’s a case of “we were following the cities safety protocols”.
The state needs to make a good policy for it. Not let dozens of different ones, or choosing to not have one at all, happen.
The state needs to make a good policy for it. Not let dozens of different ones, or choosing to not have one at all, happen.
What actually happened is: the ones that chose to have a policy are now forbidden from having a policy.
There’s still no policy, for anyone, anywhere in the state. How is this not the worst possible outcome? Yeah yeah yeah, the state should have a state-wide policy, but as of this moment, they do not. And if they really wanted to have one, banning local policies was completely unecessary.
We just went from piecemeal protection to none.
Please stop excusing that based on what you’d like to happen, next. Our reality and your desires are not equally real.
In true ex-Reddit fashion I didn’t read the article, but what I see here is only preventing locales from creating their own worker safety rules. If this is a two-parter establishing consistent rules across the state, people would be all for it. However it’s not. It’s only negative. It’s only consolidation of power without implementing that good policy. It’s only preventing other layers of government from improving worker safety
Stop it.
Stop pretending this is anything other than an attack on workers, there’s no excuse
What do you think happens when a city opts to make a really shitty heat policy because “fuck em”, then a company works someone to death in the heat and their family has issues even suing or getting much from the company because instead of “our company policy on weather was garbage and not good enough” it’s a case of “we were following the cities safety protocols”.
The state needs to make a good policy for it. Not let dozens of different ones, or choosing to not have one at all, happen.
What actually happened is: the ones that chose to have a policy are now forbidden from having a policy.
There’s still no policy, for anyone, anywhere in the state. How is this not the worst possible outcome? Yeah yeah yeah, the state should have a state-wide policy, but as of this moment, they do not. And if they really wanted to have one, banning local policies was completely unecessary.
We just went from piecemeal protection to none.
Please stop excusing that based on what you’d like to happen, next. Our reality and your desires are not equally real.
Great! But are they?
In true ex-Reddit fashion I didn’t read the article, but what I see here is only preventing locales from creating their own worker safety rules. If this is a two-parter establishing consistent rules across the state, people would be all for it. However it’s not. It’s only negative. It’s only consolidation of power without implementing that good policy. It’s only preventing other layers of government from improving worker safety