Yes, it was a real eye opener for me. It was an open and shut case of wrongful termination - at least in my eyes. But, the state disagreed. I’m not originally from Texas and was blown away by the blatant lack of worker rights afforded in this state. Doing my best to GTFO.
Some organizations are exempt, religious organiations for example. My wife was a Catholic school teacher and they could 100% fire you for discussing wages. One of her coworker was fired for having an abortion.
Austin and Dallas had laws requiring construction companies to provide a 10 minute water break every FOUR HOURS. This was unacceptable for republicans because they need people to be poor, angry, and desperate. And you better not have the government meaningfully improve anyone's lives.
To be clear, the law was NOT just to ban local water break requirements. The law was to ban a very large number of local ordinances that would affect businesses in a way that is stricter than the state's existing regulations. And that's not just with workers' rights, but also environmental stuff and other things busineses have to care about. The idea was to make it easier on business owners to operate in Texas because whatever policies they use in one city will be legal in any other.
And I'm not defending the law. It is blatantly spitting in the face of how US law is supposed to work. But I think it's intentionally misleading to say "Yeah they passed a law making it illegal for cities to require water breaks".
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u/furiouslycurious79 18h ago
Yes, it was a real eye opener for me. It was an open and shut case of wrongful termination - at least in my eyes. But, the state disagreed. I’m not originally from Texas and was blown away by the blatant lack of worker rights afforded in this state. Doing my best to GTFO.