I worked at a warehouse once with a boiler that worked 40% of the time. We had below 0 degrees F once during a bad storm and we had high 90s in summers. Glad I left before the super El nino heat and glad I don't have that work environment anymore. To be fair it's probably also not the worst. Metal smelting plants probably can go 120+ easy.
The term “third world” is no longer in use. The correct term now is a “developing nation.”
Yes, the US has been considered a developing nation since 2022.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd. Under this methodology – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria. Both are widely regarded as developing countries.
The U.S. is also now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index.
To be fair it's not the sort of thing you think you'd have to make a law about. Should be kind of expected that companies do the bare minimum to keep their staff alive.
If we have learned anything in the last decade, its that you have to put common sense shit into law because if you don't, shitty corpos will abuse it to make line go up