Hot Labor Summers: Georgia workers vs. extreme heat – Scalawag
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Georgia’s newly proposed HB 1071 provides minimal protection for workers, while also ignoring rising temperatures and heat risk.

Southern laborers organize against extreme heat and dangerous working conditions

If adopted, H.B. 1071 would provide for protections for employees from occupational heat exposure through employer-implemented preventative measures, triggered by initial heat indices, that would include providing water, access to shade, as well as mandatory breaks, observation systems, and heat hazard alerts for dangerous conditions.

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