Posted on 03/14/2024 7:57:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions is slated to hold a hearing Thursday morning regarding a standard 32-hour work week.
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 lower the threshold required for overtime pay from 40 hours to 32 hours. It would require overtime pay at a rate of 1.5 times a worker’s regular salary for work days longer than 8 hours, and it would require overtime pay at double a worker’s regular salary for work days longer than 12 hours.
The committee will hear from United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, among other witnesses.
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Has Bernie ever had a real job?
Just what we need to get the economy moving again.
” Idiot as no idea how the private sector works.”
But he does know how lazy useless f**** operate, because he is one.
Not even the French went that extreme when they reduced their work week to 35 hours.
Translation: 2024 is an election year
When I worked on commission, I saw this come up every once in awhile & it usually went nowhere. I never worked a 32 hr. week & never got paid for any overtime. Only thing I ever saw that might help the commission worker was an apparent law in California that paid something to a worker if he had no work coming in for a certain period of time. This would definitely help where I worked...had it been enacted there.
Meddlesome old fart with too much money and not enough to do.
Use him for Soylent Green shipments to Haiti!
If it does pass, it would have the same effect as raising the minimum wage. It would boost inflation and make some people harder to employ.
Politicians wanting to give the recreational marijuana industry a jump start and create more female teenybopper, Kindergarten Rock, ukulele players. Bud beer is out, marijuana buds are in!
I thought they were considering expanding their own work schedule to 32 hours a week, which would also be bad - the less they work, the less damage they do.
Which will result in replacing more full-time workers with part-time workers.
And increase adoption of automation and/or AI in the workplace.
Which is what the commies want - an entire population on universal basic income beholden the Democrat party.
Is Bernie Sanders still around?
The majority of these ass-wipes are not qualified to do anything but to posture on any political stage. Sanders is typical of a regular feeder at the public trough.
Watch how this knuckle-dragger drools while he pontificates.
I highly doubt it........
I think France did this. They also made it illegal to work more than 6 days a week, with punitive fines for those employees — not employers — who violated the law.
Isn’t France bound by such work rules, with the end result of reduced productivity and little incentive to even ENTER the work force?
There should be an apprentice entry-level pay grade, to account for lower productivity while the new hire is learning how to properly do the assigned tasks pertinent to the job at hand. Once gaining the journeyman level of competence, then we may talk about “living wage”, which is not at all anything like a “minimum wage”.
A 32-hour work week is not something that can be mandated by law, anyway. So it's all a show for the rubes. Conducted by the chief "honeymooned in the Soviet Union" senator with many houses and too many miles on his odometer.
For a few months I worked a 4-day, 40 hour work week in a small shop doing data processing/computer operations. With some taking Fri off while others took Mon off, it wasn’t efficient. The problem was that everyone was together only 3 days a week.
If questions came up about some project, you spent a lot of time digging through doco, or plowing through program listings, when you could normally get an answer in a minute if you could just ask someone directly. We tried to work around issues, but you invariably ended up delaying something until a person returned to work.
We had flex time when we needed it anyway. If someone wanted to work a half day Fri, no problem as long as you had your hours in. Anyway, I ended up disliking the 4-day week, it slowed things down in our shop.
"Senate panel considers 32-hour work week: Watch live"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Post-FDR era politically correct, election year vote-winning interpretations of the Commerce Clause aside, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate either minimum wage, for example, or to set work week hours.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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