The new push for climate disaster PTO
Denise Diaz, co-director of Central Florida Jobs with Justice, told Axios that a coalition of advocacy organizations is putting pressure on Florida state legislators to enact workforce protections for extreme weather events in the wake of Ian.
"We saw with this hurricane that workers were not given adequate time to prepare for this storm, or time off in order to be able to collect supplies and really be able to weather the storm," Diaz told Axios.
A Central Florida Jobs with Justice workers survey following Hurricane Irma in 2017 found that over half of the 134 Florida respondents reported being threatened with discipline or termination if they didn’t come in to work during the storm.
