Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
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Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#2Quite a horrific solution to a concern about variance among local governments. Perhaps they truly believe the market will solve work concerns / deaths, despite past evidence that they get brushed aside.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#3Quite a horrific solution to a concern about variance among local governments. Perhaps they truly believe the market will solve work concerns / deaths, despite past evidence that they get brushed aside.
Abbott wants major Texas cities to have as little control as possible since they’re mostly majority democrat. Doubt they’re even thinking about markets solving problems.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#4This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own.
While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south.
I would think an employer who has crews working in the heat would want their crews to be rested and hydrated. Someone handing heavy machinery and passes out, or god forbid, dies on a job would crush that company and cause hell on the general costs of insurance. Also with the number of construction companies, ones that basically tell their staff they can’t drink water I would have to believe quickly will find no one will want to work for.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#5This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own. While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south. I would…
> ones that basically tell their staff they can’t drink water I would have to believe quickly will find no one will want to work for
I've never done something as difficult as construction, but I was a cashier, sanding still on concrete all day for 8 hours, no fun. I don't think anyone wanted to do that, but there they were doing it anyway. And there they still are every time I go to the store, no stool to sit on, standing still on concrete.
Your belief seems to be that if people don't want to do a thing, they wont, but that doesn't seem to be true when I look around.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#6This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own. While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south. I would…
Here where I live we don't have mandated by government bathroom breaks, yet my employer lets me go whenever I want.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#7This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own. While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south. I would…
My decades of working in very capitalistic companies has taught me two things:
1. Emotions are bigger factor than logic when it comes to business decisions.
2. We often assume wrong on what a “rational” economic choice should be. We believe it would be constructive, but economically beneficial choice for an individual often does not align with the constructive choice.
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#8Are all the workers insured?
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#9This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own. While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south. I would…
Here where I live we don't have mandated by government bathroom breaks, yet my employer lets me go whenever I want.
Can I ask what legal jurisdiction you are referring to?
Re: Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
#10Quite a horrific solution to a concern about variance among local governments. Perhaps they truly believe the market will solve work concerns / deaths, despite past evidence that they get brushed aside.
More than that, the Real Market (Earth) may solve this issue for good, when Texas regularly hits Wet Bulb Temp due to Climate Change, people will start heading north. So no more Texas.
This is crazy, I am sure the Lawyers are now looking closely to Case Law to e ready when the suite start flying.