Texas Heat Safety Retreat Shows Need For National Rule
Media has focused on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signing new state legislation that strips its cities and counties of some of their independence, but for workers, more may be at stake.
Effective Sept. 1, the law will bar Dallas—where temperatures were forecast to top 100°F consistently in the last week of June—from enforcing its local mandate that requires employers to provide a 10-minute water break every four hours. After that date in September, employers building there and in Austin, which has a similar rule, can stop the breaks.