Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) today announced that this Thursday he will introduce legislation to establish a standard 32-hour workweek in America with no loss in pay – an important step toward ensuring that workers share in the massive increase in productivity driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology. Sanders is joined on the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act in the Senate by Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) and in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) who introduced companion legislation.
Read the bill summary, here. [PDF]
Read the bill text, here. [PDF]
The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would:
- Reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over four years by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees.
- Require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays longer than eight hours, and overtime pay at double a worker’s regular pay for workdays longer than 12 hours.
- Protect workers’ pay and benefits to ensure that a reduction in the workweek does not cause a loss in pay.
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my direct manager is so deeply capitalism cucked. i used to bring up ideas like this to him, because he's a turbolib and fancies himself an intellectual and progressive. i have learned, he is the embodiment of the cultural hegemony of US political economy.
he seems to completely internalize the most obviously false values of capitalist ideology, even the ones the upper level managers parrot but know better than to believe. this guy personally makes 3x the median household income for the the county, and spends all his effort going to meetings complaining about the lack of money for projects. not to mention the perennial HR dumpster fire of his fiefdom from high turnover among productive, non-managerial staff with critical institutional knowledge. it should surprise no one that he is a doofus with his personal finances too and carries credit card debt.
it's hard to imagine a more useful idiot for the bourgeoisie.
You mean, the way workplaces functioned for decades before email was a thing? Christ if you really want to get the email sent that badly just set it to delay delivery at 9 the next morning, but shit will still get done if off hours are respected.
There are very few people I have more contempt for than self described "as progressive as they come" people who would never support anything 1 inch to the left of what is already established.