[Auracle]

Eh. Let’s say you run a small construction company. Each week you might be in a different town, chasing whatever work is available to you. I can absolutely see it being onerous/possibly impossible to follow different ordinances in each city.

Any reasonable company would already have water breaks more often than that, and presumably OSHA has rules for that too.

I’m a wedding photographer. Sometimes we hire on second photographers for a day. Should I get in trouble if I didn’t realize in was within specific city limits that mandated I give a defined water break to that second photographer after so many hours? Most weddings you just get water whenever you can, here and there.

[mrguyorama]

You aren't responsible for an independent contractor's breaks. You have no obligation to tell a wedding photographer to take a lunch if they have worked 8 hours straight. That's entirely on them as their own boss.

>Each week you might be in a different town, chasing whatever work is available to you. I can absolutely see it being onerous/possibly impossible to follow different ordinances in each city.

Even our small town of 7000 people managed to employ two entire construction empires. If the amount of money in that system is not enough for you to give enough of a crap to provide required breaks and other health important things for your workers, I cry no tears when you are fined.

It's always the same people crying about "onerous" regulation because they refuse to even do a simple google search.

>Any reasonable company would already have water breaks more often than that, and presumably OSHA has rules for that too.

Then you have nothing to worry about. If you have rules that are above and beyond any existing standard, you are not violating a standard. This really isn't complicated and people are bending themselves in half to try and justify this clearly hostile act. Stop with the devil's advocate bullshit.

[itsyaboi]

Most construction workers that I've met are either independent contractors or paid in cash day laborers.

[sn9]

If wedding photography had a high risk of death from heat stroke, I'd be happy for you to have to deal with local regulations putting some boundaries on how you abuse your employees while risking their lives.

Sorry about the inconvenience, but maybe being an employer isn't for you if you don't give a damn about the people for whom you're responsible.

[Auracle]

It's not about not giving people breaks, it's about unknowingly breaking laws.

My wife is my only second shooter so obviously she's treated well, or she wouldn't do it. In my contract is the clause that we can't be subjected to dangerous working conditions, and a few weeks ago I had a wedding where I absolutely needed to take a break to sit in the shade and drink.