City Talks Construction Worker Safety
KXAN—September 16th, 2011
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The safety of construction workers takes center stage in Austin on Thursday.
The city, along with the Department of Labor and the Workers Defense Project, will be talking about a new survey they just conducted.
They looked at 65 different construction sites and found more than 100 safety and wage violations.
They were looking for one specific thing: checking to see if work sites were in compliance with an Austin ordinance requiring workers to get 10-minute rest breaks every four hours.
More than half of surveyed workers said their employers violate that ordinance.
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