Last Wednesday, the Phoenix City Council voted unanimously to toughen the city’s workplace heat-safety rules, beefing up protections for workers who report violations and adding new reporting duties for contractors on city projects. The amendment requires heat-safety plans to spell out non-retaliation protections, mandates monthly logs verifying vehicle air-conditioning beginning April 1, 2026, and gives the city new power to sideline sanctioned contractors from city contracts for a year. City leaders say the move follows repeated complaints that some employers, including those at Sky Harbor, were not fully following the 2024 ordinance.
What the council changed
The draft ordinance posted on phoenix.legistar.com revises City Code to require…..