Work Reform

The law is a ten minute break every four hours?? That’s fucking bullshit already!

Where I live it 15 minutes after 2.5 hours if you’re only working 5 hours or less. 2 hours if you’re you’re there all day, but you get your 30-minute lunch after 4 hours, then a fifteen minute break every two hours worked after that.

If an employer doesn't allow you a water break in this heat then it's time to leave them without employees.

so much "prolife" sentiment coming out of Texas! /s

Oh man... what sort of people come up with these laws? It's already bad enough to only have 10 minutes every 4 hours, now they want to take that away too? Wtf is happening.

If the politicians can do those jobs under those conditions for a week, have at it

The actual benefit would be some state reps would die during the exercise, and well, that's enough

And here I am contemplating what kind of world we live in where people working a regular job can't just get up and go drink as much as they need whenever they need... I mean ok sure don't drop the heavy steel beam you carry with a coworker until you have it in place, but after you finished a task it shouldn't take more than a "I'm going to take a drink" and off you go. Also sure be prepared to face consequences if you don't get anything done.. But it surely can't be more detrimental to your work output to drink for a minute every so often than not drinking at all and getting fatigue etc.

Wtf is this shit... If you're overheated and dehydrated, stop, drink water.

It's pretty simple

So like what does it take for people to revolt? are they just going to stand idly by while their fellows actually die, waiting for their own turn to stroke out from overworking and dehydration?

"we are dying"

Oh please, stop being dramatic

/s

I get where they're coming from with this, but if I'm out doing physical labor in the hot sun I need water like ever 20 minutes. Four hours is an eternity.

So how fucked up we want to make everything for the backbone-industry everyone is needing:

US: Yes

Seriously, I can't even understand how people allow this to happen in your own country. It would be political suicide to try this in any place of Germany.

Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.

Texas is learning Qatari World Cup stadium construction methods

What is the LeopardAteMyFace equivalent for Lemmy? Because this belongs there.

Guaranteed that the same people complaining about this water break issue now are also people who in the last election either couldn't be bothered to go vote, or voted for that clown Abbott. You vote for fascists, you get fascist policies.

And yet all the votes except for ONE came from the Republican party.....

It’s crazy to me that anyone could sit on their ass in AC all day and even consider speaking to take water breaks away from construction workers. I went in figuring they got 10 minutes per hour and it’s only 10 minutes per four hours?! Fuck that noise, they need more time to rest and hydrate. What the fuck is wrong with people.

Ribbit

Bro, americans are slaves. I thought they abolished slavery.