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Similar to WishfulSpirit's thread in MiM, though a bit more extreme.
A friend of mine works at an electronics warehouse in Arizona. He's working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a three-hour round-trip commute, and because of other duties (like, you know, food and chores and stuff) he's only getting two hours of sleep a night. He's given one half-hour lunch break about halfway through his day, and that's it.
He's also responsible for operating forklifts, and on two hours of sleep, I feel like this is somehow an OSHA violation. But here's the real problem:
He's a temp worker, and Arizona is a right-to-work state, so labor laws don't really apply to him and there's nothing he can do about his hours. I'm getting all of my information from him, so if some part of this is wrong or he missed something in his research, let me know. I'm also hoping that someone out there will know of a federal law that protects him, since everything I'm googling is coming up in unintelligible legalese.
Edited to add: He just informed me that he gets a 15-minte break every two hours, and his lunch break is after the first four. That's what I get for trusting slightly old information.
A friend of mine works at an electronics warehouse in Arizona. He's working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a three-hour round-trip commute, and because of other duties (like, you know, food and chores and stuff) he's only getting two hours of sleep a night. He's given one half-hour lunch break about halfway through his day, and that's it.
He's also responsible for operating forklifts, and on two hours of sleep, I feel like this is somehow an OSHA violation. But here's the real problem:
He's a temp worker, and Arizona is a right-to-work state, so labor laws don't really apply to him and there's nothing he can do about his hours. I'm getting all of my information from him, so if some part of this is wrong or he missed something in his research, let me know. I'm also hoping that someone out there will know of a federal law that protects him, since everything I'm googling is coming up in unintelligible legalese.
Edited to add: He just informed me that he gets a 15-minte break every two hours, and his lunch break is after the first four. That's what I get for trusting slightly old information.
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