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Heat-Related Deaths For Farmworkers Persist And Employers Often Avoid Consequences

Heat-Related Deaths For Farmworkers Persist And Employers Often Avoid Consequences

Update: 2025-08-14
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This month marks 20 years since California implemented rules meant to protect workers from the heat amid a series of farm worker deaths. But two decades later, many employers still don't provide workers with the protections they're owed, enforcement is generally lax, climate change has brought more severe heat waves, and workers continue to die.


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Heat-Related Deaths For Farmworkers Persist And Employers Often Avoid Consequences

Heat-Related Deaths For Farmworkers Persist And Employers Often Avoid Consequences

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