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Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat.
The lawsuit comes after Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, signed a controversial bill into law on 14 June that prohibits local municipalities from enacting heat protection standards for construction workers.
Infante later died in a hospital from severe heatstroke and had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F (43.2C).
This is not the only lawsuit Abbott is facing.
Texas sued over plan to deploy floating barrier on Rio Grande to curb border crossings.
The suit lists the state of Texas and Abbott, as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard.
Lawsuit filed against Gov. Abbott, state officials claims Operation Lone Star violated civil rights.
The law forbids water breaks and repeals existing laws. It doesn’t mandate the employer actually do anything, it just forbids them form doing something.
We have local government passing this and then getting big footed by the state. What happened to the Rs and smaller government? If the employees don’t like the city laws they approach their city councilperson, not the governor.
Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat.
The lawsuit comes after Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, signed a controversial bill into law on 14 June that prohibits local municipalities from enacting heat protection standards for construction workers.
Infante later died in a hospital from severe heatstroke and had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F (43.2C).
This is not the only lawsuit Abbott is facing.
Texas sued over plan to deploy floating barrier on Rio Grande to curb border crossings.
The suit lists the state of Texas and Abbott, as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard.
Lawsuit filed against Gov. Abbott, state officials claims Operation Lone Star violated civil rights.
1. Per the worker who died of heatstroke the governor isn't being sued
2. San Antonio didn't have any water break rules per se on the books before the new law.
It sucks but it's Texas and it's hot. Multiple people die of heatstroke throughout the summer, every summer.
The law forbids water breaks and repeals existing laws. It doesn’t mandate the employer actually do anything, it just forbids them form doing something.
We have local government passing this and then getting big footed by the state. What happened to the Rs and smaller government? If the employees don’t like the city laws they approach their city councilperson, not the governor.
Just as bad, it forbid states from mandating water breaks for workers. It doesn’t have to be twisted to see that this is clearly not the party of small government or states rights.
Basically the TX legislature was mad that municipalities passed regulations requiring water and shade breaks during hot months that weren't mandated by the state, so the state said "no more freedom for you" to these other municipalities.
There was ZERO reason to do this outside of state legislators wanting to be mommy and daddy laying down the law for the rest of the state's residents.
Basically the TX legislature was mad that municipalities passed regulations requiring water and shade breaks during hot months that weren't mandated by the state, so the state said "no more freedom for you" to these other municipalities.
There was ZERO reason to do this outside of state legislators wanting to be mommy and daddy laying down the law for the rest of the state's residents.
In my parts, there were centralized regulations pertaining to working conditions, mandating that under certain conditions, a water break should be taken every 15 minutes. Those rules were strictly enforced. They were not local regulations but state regulations. And like most safety regulations, they were written in blood. We had a strict heatstroke/dehydration/overheating protocol. We were handed out salt tablets and that was changed to vitamin C tablets. That was to prevent people from dying.
I would want to have a closer look at this bill before passing comment on it. I do know that conflicting regulations are a pain so it makes sense to get rid of the clutter. Is that what they did? Well, I'll go through your second link to see what it's all about.
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