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‘Treated like tools that are disposable’: Texas law gets rid of mandatory rest breaks for construction workers
LAW LIMITING POWER OF CITIES TO MAKE OWN RULES To tackle this problem, the liberal Texan cities of Austin and Dallas took matters into their own hands. In 2010 and 2015 respectively, they passed local ordinances requiring 10-minute rest breaks every four …