Oregon and Minnesota are the only other states that mandate similar protections.
😱 3/50 states require employers to provide water, breaks and cool areas when indoor temperatures hit 28C???
The USA is third world country and first world country at the same time. Just fucking crazy.
To be fair it’s not the sort of thing you think you’d have to make a law about. Should be kind of expected that companies do the bare minimum to keep their staff alive.
If we have learned anything in the last decade, its that you have to put common sense shit into law because if you don’t, shitty corpos will abuse it to make line go up
Safety regulations are written in blood.
The term “third world” is no longer in use. The correct term now is a “developing nation.”
Yes, the US has been considered a developing nation since 2022.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
