Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours
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#2I'd be perfectly happy with 35 hours, so that an eight hour workday is actually eight hours and not nine because your lunch break doesn't count.
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#3Would this also have the side-effect of adjusting the threshold at which hourly employees become full-time? (and thus require benefits)
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#4"Today, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)."
It seems like this would just lead to businesses who employee non-exempt employees hiring more of them but scheduling for fewer hours to stay under the 32 hour threshold. Simple changes to a system as complex as our labor laws are just not going to do the job. We need to look at employee classification as though we were starting from scratch to design a system that makes sense for the realities of today - gig work, remote work, side hustles, etc.
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#5Would this also have the side-effect of adjusting the threshold at which hourly employees become full-time? (and thus require benefits)
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#6Would this also have the side-effect of adjusting the threshold at which hourly employees become full-time? (and thus require benefits)
It impacts people being paid overtime.
In reality, this would likely push some employers to leave ~Cali~ (EDIT: mean the U.S., didn't realize this was federal) (such as SpaceX, Tesla, etc), as they wont want to pay overtime.
It would also potentially push people to hire more salary employees, but they'll only be paid for 32 hours. That could suppress salaries (as the employer will only pay say $100/hr, they wont increase it so it'll potentially be a 20% cut in pay).
Essentially, continue the drive to push all the jobs overseas.
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#7"Today, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)." It seems like this would just lead to businesses who employee non-exempt employees hiring more of them but scheduling for fewer hours to stay under the 32 hour…
I agree with you here. I'm honestly not educated on history enough to know if such a reform is feasible in a single pass - an entire redesign vs incremental change. It would be cool if a major rework could happen all at once.
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#9Would this also have the side-effect of adjusting the threshold at which hourly employees become full-time? (and thus require benefits)
It impacts people being paid overtime. In reality, this would likely push some employers to leave ~Cali~ (EDIT: mean the U.S., didn't realize this was federal) (such as SpaceX, Tesla, etc), as they wont want to pay overtime. It would also potentially push people to hire more salary employees, but they'll only be paid for 32 hours. That could suppress salaries (as the employer will only pay say $100/hr, they wont incr…
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#10For manual labor this would make a big difference. For intellectual work, I suspect it would probably not lead to much less work being done. Just because people are at the office 8 hours a day, doesn’t mean they’re getting 8 hours of work done. I would be curious if people would get as much done and waste less time sitting there or if the sitting there time is the same, percentage wise.