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Subject Hot on the Job: How Should New York Protect Workers From Heat?
Date September 15, 2023 12:52 PM
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** City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
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Hot on the Job: How Should New York Protect Workers From Heat?
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Workers, especially people of color and immigrants, are suffering in increasingly hot weather. Our CLARIFY News youth reporters looked at the ways labor laws are being reworked to consider the impact of extreme heat.

“Employers do not act out of their own good will or benevolence to make sure that they are providing water, providing air conditioning, providing shade,” said Astrid Aune, senior advisor to Queens State Sen. Jessica Ramos, who has introduced legislation that would require that workplaces make changes to protect employees.

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