City talks construction worker safety

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The safety of construction workers takes center stage in Austin on Thursday.

The city, along with the Department of Labor and the Workers Defense Project, will be talking about a new survey they just conducted.

They looked at 65 different construction sites and found more than 100 safety and wage violations.

They were looking for one specific thing: checking to see if work sites were in compliance with an Austin ordinance requiring workers to get 10-minute rest breaks every four hours.

More than half of surveyed workers said their employers violate that ordinance.