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ACLU to sue state over inadequate heat protections

By Richard Binder

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The American Civil Liberties Union, the United Farm Workers of America and a number of farmworkers are announcing a lawsuit against the state of California and its Division of Occupational Safety and Health, accusing them of failing to protect the state's estimated 650,000 farm workers from heat-related illness and death.

The ACLU of Southern California and the LA law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP criticized the state?s proposed new emergency standards for heat-related illness for outdoor workers.

According to Cal-OSHA, employers must provide shade for at least a quarter of their outdoor employees when the temperature reaches 85 degrees.

Full story here.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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