“Small business owners … don’t have the time or the resources to navigate a confusing and contradictory patchwork of local ordinances.”
state in the nation for construction laborers, and there is no federal mandate for rest breaks. In a bid to reduce deaths, the nonprofit Workers Defense Project successfully pushed the rest break measures. Austin also maintains an ordinance preventing employers from asking about criminal history prior to extending a job offer, and voters in the North Texas suburb of Euless recentlyIn 2018, Austinthe first city in the South to pass an ordinance requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave.
“SB 14 would make the Texas construction industry even deadlier than it already is,” said Emily Timm, co-executive director of Workers Defense, at a demonstration last month focused on defending the rest break policies. “And you put that in the context of every year the average temperatures climb higher with climate change, and that means [lawmakers] want to take local rest breaks away at the very time we need stronger protections.
SB 14 made it through the Senate in April with unanimous Republican support plus Brownsville Democrat Eddie Lucio Jr., and looked on pace to pass. Then, in the House, labor advocates successfully convinced legislators to water down the bill by shielding rest break andordinances. The Senate could have agreed to the changes, but chose instead to go to a conference committee, where a group of mostly Republicans stripped the protections.
“It’s the Lieutenant Governor [Dan Patrick] and it’s the ideology of the NFIB and their kind of holy war on workers’ rights—it’s a scorched earth approach and I think it burned them in the end,” said Rick Levy, president of the Texas AFL-CIO. “That bill would be law today if they had gone along with the reasonable compromise the House crafted.”
It was the second time Republicans had failed to pass a bill like SB 14. In 2019, a similar measure failed,
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