‘New Territory’ for Americans: Deadly Heat in the Workplace
www.nytimes.com
Deaths are rising sharply, and the Biden administration is trying to respond. Its plan faces big hurdles.

This is why a number of Republican-controlled states have banned municipal governments from imposing workplace rules to limit heat exposure.

  • Maeve@kbin.social
    21·
    6 months ago

    Marc Freedman, a vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobbying group, wrote that such a rule would present huge challenges for employers and that “it is extraordinarily difficult for them to determine when heat presents a hazard because each employee experiences heat differently.” Mr. Freeman said the unpredictable nature of heat creates “a substantial barrier to efforts to determine when employees require protection.”

    Won’t someone PLEASE consider the business owners?!

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        You’re thinking of conservatives. The cruelty isn’t the point with the chamber of commerce. Profits are the point. Anything that benefits the worker reduces profits for the capitalist.

        • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
          31·
          6 months ago

          I think you’re wrong. If they actually cared about profits, it would be easy to understand that a healthy workforce is better. But these people just enjoy inflicting misery.

          • Maeve@kbin.social
            1·
            6 months ago

            Correct. Just as they expect farm animals to be treated as machinery, they expect humans to be treated as machinery – unless it’s themselves and those they deem worthy.

        • Maeve@kbin.social
          1·
          6 months ago

          I said what I said, and meant it. I know what I think, and don’t need anyone to tell me otherwise.

      • Maeve@kbin.social
        1·
        6 months ago

        Please don’t let anyone tell you what you’re thinking. You may or not allow them to present their views, but you are the hm, as W put t, “the decider.”