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.

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.

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

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

It's pretty simple

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.

"we are dying"

Oh please, stop being dramatic

/s

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?

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.

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.

Texas is learning Qatari World Cup stadium construction methods

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.

This will sound like I am not supporting workers, but hear me out. The intention of this law has nothing to do with taking away breaks. There’s this picture being painted of “state and evil construction companies” vs “workers and municipalities.” There’s actually two different fights here: workers vs evil construction companies and, the state vs municipalities. Focusing on the first one is important outside of how the state and city are bickering.

If you know your construction company will take away your 10 min / 4 hr water break because the city can no longer enforce that, that’s NOT the state’s fault because they’re taking a common sense approach to consolidating laws and eliminating bureaucracy. That is an evil fucking construction company.

You want to blame a lawmaker because they assumed no company would be evil enough to do that, fine, but think about that, and the entire scope of this bill, when deciding who to protest against.

EDIT: Sorry to come off looking like a republican shill. That was honestly not my intention. I'll try harder next time. ESH except the workers trying to stay hydrated!