Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation barring local and municipal governments from requiring their own heat protections for workers. The law, House Bill 433, blocks local governments…
He’s just letting the free market decide. I mean, everyone knows that no company would buy a building where a worker died constructing it. And no workers would decide to work for a company without heat protections, right?
I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren’t political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn’t have gone through the effort if there wasn’t a problem to be addressed.
I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn’t seeing results. I don’t understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?
They are blue areas doing good things to help their constituents. DeSantis couldn’t have that. It’s really not any deeper than that. The cruelty is the point.
Texas recently did something similar: they banned requiring water breaks for workers. It sounded like it was a political move to show they were helping businesses be more productive, even if it doesn’t really help much while still hurting the people they want to hurt.
He’s just letting the free market decide. I mean, everyone knows that no company would buy a building where a worker died constructing it. And no workers would decide to work for a company without heat protections, right?
I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren’t political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn’t have gone through the effort if there wasn’t a problem to be addressed.
I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn’t seeing results. I don’t understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?
They are blue areas doing good things to help their constituents. DeSantis couldn’t have that. It’s really not any deeper than that. The cruelty is the point.
Texas recently did something similar: they banned requiring water breaks for workers. It sounded like it was a political move to show they were helping businesses be more productive, even if it doesn’t really help much while still hurting the people they want to hurt.
I have never seen a company that doesn’t have heat protections already in place.