House Bill 2127, which takes effect on Sept. 1, will do away with local rules that require water breaks for construction workers. The cities of Austin and Dallas, for example, require 10-minute breaks every four hours. San Antonio officials had been considering a similar ordinance.
“We are human beings who need respect,” Martínez said. “We really need to be allowed to work without problems, without any barriers … Believe me, we are dying inside those buildings when they take away our water and our [break] time.”
So how fucked up we want to make everything for the backbone-industry everyone is needing:
US: Yes
Seriously, I can’t even understand how people allow this to happen in your own country. It would be political suicide to try this in any place of Germany.
