[Salman]

Why work at all? It's California, man.

[Still Thinking]

THAT’S how you solve rampant unemployment - force everybody to only work half a job! Then there’s more to go around, plus half the people that were counted as underemployed are now full-timers!

[Myrddin]

My boss bid and won a contract with a German firm. The agreement was we work 10, bill for 8. The Germans have a strict control on hours worked. If you work in excess of the allowed hours and have a vehicle accident, your car insurance is invalid. That seems to be sufficient incentive for hourly employees to toe the line. The perk on this contract for me was getting to work in Frankfurt am Main for almost 3 months (spread over a few trips). A little full immersion German practice.

I've been salaried since 1980 with two employers. Salary is based on working 40 hour weeks. Incidental overtime below 8 hours is not compensated. In point of fact, my current employer doesn't compensate for more than 40 hours. Period. Same pay if you work 40 or 80 hours. If the customer directs additional hours to meet a critical deadline, then you get a special accounting labeled "Extended Work Week" and compensation for hour above 40 are paid at "straight time" rates. Due to the 40 hour weekly expectation, there is an accounting tool called Personal Time Bank. If you worked 55 hours in the first week of the 2 week period, you can submit a -15 hours PTB in week one, and a +15 hour PTB in week 2 resulting in a need to work only 25 more hours to fill 80 hours in the two week period.

My company has a presence in every state in the US. Whatever CA decides is only going to impact the CA employees. Likely, it will drive the closure of more physical office space in CA and rebalance the labor supporting contracts to remote employees in other states.

[markman46]

Well unions are exempt from the law

[TianaHighrider]

Many government people work their full 80 hours in a two week time, and get one day off every other week. So just an hour longer 8 days, and get a day off. It is really a great idea.

I wish I had that luxury. For years, I use all my vacation days, and more, taking off to take an elderly relative to medical appointments. Not to mention my own and dental. But I am still far more thankful for my relative than a vacation.

[aquila48]

I really despise these cockroaches!

[rlmorel]

"...Proposed bill would shorten California workweek to 32 hours. Here’s what you need to know..."

IF YOU OWN A BUSINESS AND WISH TO STAY IN BUSINESS LEAVE CALIFORNIA OR DON'T GO THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

That is all there is to know.

[winner3000]

That’s what they tried in France. It didn’t work out too well.

[aquila48]

This should do wonders for inflation.

[Obadiah]

When did California nationalize large companies in their state?

[jz638]

I understand the folly of an out of touch liberal legislature mandating how business can conduct itself, but does anyone actually actually want to work five days/forty hours per week if they had an opportunity not to?

I've worked jobs where I, on most average days, could easily accomplish my entire day's work in just a few hours of concentrated work. The rest of my day was spent in the office doing f##kall trying to pass the time. The pandemic showed companies and employees all across the nation that a lot of what they were doing as employment was more clock watching and controlling people's schedules, not actually generating value for a company or performing labor.

I'm not saying that a 32 hour workweek is necessarily better , but this is not territory that needs to be abandoned because it "sounds like socialism to me hurr durr".

It would be fully appropriate to make a case for rescinding that monstrosity of Obamacare and in its place put together laws that allow for the decoupling of health insurance from employment so that individuals don't have to be beholden to corporations for their healthcare. Maybe conservatives pushing legislation that relaxes and rescinds the system that pushes "full time employment" altogether so that companies can offer more part time work with minimal paperwork and individuals can have more time to work on their side hustles to start new careers or their own companies? The only thing they don't make more of it time and real estate. Parents having more time with family is conservative. Parents being a more active part of their childrens' education is conservative. Creating an environment where entrepreneurs can strike out on their own and take their own risks to build something is conservative. Citizens participating in their community, maybe even taking a more active role in their government... all that is conservative.

[mcenedo]

Basically a 10% raise for hourly employees.

[allblues]

As one who lived in Berserkeley through the 80’s and half of the 90’s this is exactly what I saw genuine commies promoting. If there was a flyer stapled to a telephone pole that listed the platform of the Socialist Workers party or other assorted commie pukes this concept would be on the list.

[Allegra]

The bill, AB 2932, would change the definition of a workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours for companies with more than 500 employees. A full workday would remain at eight hours, and employers would be required to provide overtime pay for employees working longer than four full days.

For commercial/private sector companies? Can they even do that??

California just keeps out-stupiding itself.

[TonyM]

On one hand they say the poor can’t live on minimum wage but its okay to reduce the number of hours they can work? When was in my 20’s-30’s I worked 60 hours and a part time second job to make ends meet. Americans today are too spoiled for that I guess.

[Reno89519]

From an employee perspective, since companies aren’t raising salaries, this would be very welcomed. From an employer perspective, ouch.

[ridesthemiles]

MORE disruptions to the ‘supply chain’.