Are there laws on restaurant temperatures?
I work in a small restaurant in North Carolina. The heat is only getting started. Our AC cannot keep up with the heat, and the owner/head chef refuses to fix it because it’s too expensive. He also thinks the temperature is fine?? Even though we’ve had a multitude of customers complain, and the entirety of the staff is complaining. Currently, as I am writing this, it’s 88 degrees in the dining room and 98 degrees in the kitchen. We have ceiling fans and box fans going all day, but they do nothing. Our walk in cooler is also broken, and isn’t getting fixed. We just use coolers and freezers. There is no way to get relief from the heat in here except from drinking ice water.
Are there rules regarding conditions like this?
(yes I am going to quit, not just because of this but because of other things regarding the owner)