Why limit such a basic thing as water breaks, not smoke break or lunch breaks but water??
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Because there are federal standards. The bill is banning localities from establish individual standards, not banning protections all together.
https://www.osha.gov/heat-exposure/standards
If localities develop individual requirements it makes it very difficult for companies and employees to know what they are supposed to do. Take a construction company that works in 8 counties, 2 cities, and 15 townships. They now have to comply with different criteria across all of their worksites. One site has 15 minute breaks every 45 minutes and across the street across a county line the site has a 10 minute break every 2 hours but must be in an A/C environment. Same weather and conditions, two different regulatory requirements to comply with. What happens if a worker moves between sites? How is their work/rest cycle caculated? Does the worker know the schedules for the 30 different standards they work in?
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