Phoenix City Council passes an ordinance that requires Sky Harbor Airport to provide workers with heat-related protections like cold water and air conditioning, beginning in May.
Phoenix City Council passed an ordinance to help alleviate heat-related hazards for employees at Phoenix Sky Harbor beginning in May.The new law helps to improve workplace conditions and requires the airport to provide breaks, air conditioning and cold water to employees.
"We’re glad the city of Phoenix is stepping up to require that airlines and their contractors give us basic heat protections outdoors and in the jet bridges," Cecilia Ortiz, a service agent at Sky Harbor who filed a complaint against an airport contractor, said in a release. "Now we need to keep pushing to make sure cabin cleaners, who work inside planes but often with the air conditioning off, are also protected.
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