Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat

  • exothermic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A million dollars is hardly enough. The lawsuit should be for the dollar amount of his lifetime worth of gainful employment. Anything less is despicable and wrong.

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      1 year ago

      and then times it by 10. If it bankrupts the company so be it.

      I work in construction. We have a re-roof job running right now. They go through almost a pallet of water every day and are required to have x amount of rest in shade. When it got to hot the hours were moved to night till mid day to protect them from the heat.

      If they suspected him of being on drugs they should have pulled him from the job site immediately once symptoms were showing. Anything less is a danger to the employee as well as everyone else on the site.

      What this company did was illegal, morally wrong and down right evil.

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      When a corporation kills a human, we should dissolve it, sell it’s assets, and turn the money raised over to the victim’s next of kin.

      We can see how long it takes for stockholders to vote in favor of safety regulations after we do that a few times.