Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill
thehill.com
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to establish a standard four-day workweek in the United States without any reduction in pay. The bill, over a four-year period, would lowe…
    • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
      37·
      1 year ago

      The article literally tells you that this was done before, to give us the 40 day standard we now have. It worked before, and the article also points out that other countries have recently reduced work weeks under 40 hours. How is it hard to imagine that something that factually has happened could happen?

    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
      16·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully it reclassifies weekly work hour threshold to be considered for full time benefits. Either way it’s going to be a bumpy ride. At least someone is trying something

        • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
          25·
          1 year ago

          I mean, they actually can. That’s a completely facetious argument. Laws can set standards without defining everything. It’s done all the time.

        • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          The US government isn’t party to private contracts. Can’t dictate terms in that manner.

          Nonsense. Try writing a contract that makes someone your slave and see how enforceable it is. How do you think minimum wage works? Walmart is paying that out of the goodness of their heart? No… they are forced to by the feds.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I don’t understand how the “no loss of pay” part is implemented either.

      Even if there is something in the bill that requires overtime pay, that’s just a multiplier to the base wage. What keeps an unscrupulous employer from just dropping the base rate by 20%?

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          And add to that, anybody who is already salaried is just going to end up working the same 40+ that they’re already doing.

          Out of all those jobs I had, only 1 gave me anything for OT, and that was just TOIL, which is nice but not sufficient when you’re the only person in your position.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I suppose we would have to raise the minimum wage, and since neither party wants that, it’s dead in the water.