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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    • AcidMarxist [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      I mean, even if Bernie had succeeded in couping Demonrats back in 2020, i dont have much faith in amerikkka democratic socialism. No sectarian smoke to my comrades who are still demsoc, but I jumped ship around 2020 after the history I read and reality started to collide. Even in the FDR days the working class has never held lasting power, it always gets funneled into bourgeois parties and unions. bern-disgust is controlled opposition, anything he accomplishes at this point will be because his colleagues in all four branches (including cia here) allow it to happen