Posted on 03/17/2023 7:23:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) – The “Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act” was introduced in the House earlier this month, as progressives try for a second time to shorten the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), proposes amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to shorten the standard workweek by eight hours for non-exempt employees. (A non-exempt employee is someone who is currently entitled to overtime when they work more than 40 hours in a week.) It would effectively mean either shorter workweeks or more overtime pay for hourly workers. While the law, if passed, wouldn’t immediately impact salaried workers in office and tech jobs, Takano told the Washington Post he believed it would contribute to a culture shift across all industries.
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The D next to these psychopath’s names clearly means Destroyer these days.
Why not? The French have a 32-hour work week...6 weeks of paid vacation time, 11 paid national holidays, gobs of sick time.
Everything you use/buy/need will cost 20% more-—
You will have to pay your staff for 40 hours of work when they only work 32,and you will need more staff to fill in the open time. That is a 20% increase in costs for you-—before you even add staff.
Job signs all over are not being filled now-—HOW much worse can it get???
EVERY extra employee you have to hire costs the company more in health costs-—sick pay—holiday pay, uniforms, etc.
These pampered snowflakes have been well prepared to work——NOT!!!!
ANOTHER LEGACY OF PARTICIPATION TROPHIES !!!!!!!!!!!
This is the best news for Doordash.
So many new workers that delivery will literally be 1 dollar.
It is interesting that union members are agreeable to accepting a 1/5 cut in their weekly pay! Remember! Hourly (non-exempt) contracts wages are based on a per hour basis! So an hourly worker who earns $1000/week for 40 hours worked is suddenly going to be earning $800/week for 32 hours worked! I don’t think that workers are thinking this through!
No. It means even fewer full-time jobs will be available, and part-timers will be written up/fired if they work 32 or more hours, so they'll have to work multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.
Personal experience here. If you stay a few minutes later and don't clock out in time, you're written up and threatened with a firing because the business will get into trouble if the part-timers work "full-time hours."
Why change it? What is wrong with 40 hours?
Why does the gooberment feel it is their role to have any hand in any of this?
I’m sure people would love to work less and be paid for more but that is unaffordable. We get little enough work out of people now and what is more, we don’t have enough work hours to go around as it is.
Won’t society and business interests manage this on their own as needs be?
Another politician not doing his job and not knowing what that is.
It is hard enough to change ourselves and nearly impossible to change someone else. Isn’t society similar? Isn’t it hard enough to change without gooberment insisting they change it for us?
I spent my entire life running restaurants 40 hours would have been a vacation!!!
How many hours a week do these (Reps) work? 20?
The PIC (Pervert in Chief) will write an Executive Order, so at least govt lackeys can work even less.
Dems want to give all the illegals jobs for their vote. Wait till the food shortage hits......
Of course this started in California - as if they couldn’t further drive businesses out and/or force them to automate. The closed businesses in my SoCal town tell the story of excess taxation and onerous regulations.
I was in a Whole Foods (called Whole Paycheck) yesterday and noticed that they’ve just added a whole bank of eight new self checkout stands. At many fast food places, you order from a kiosk now instead of a person at the counter.
Latest business to fall: Farmer John’s - makes of the Dodger Dog - which is pulling out of California after 90 years due to, as they report, the “high price of doing business in California.”
Of course the pols who mandate these regulations on businesses have never run one themselves, but they sure know how to drive them out.
No one is going to want to work that much. They barely get in 6 hours a week as it is.
What the hell is wrong with a 12 or 18 hour “work” week? People need time off to go on weekly vacations in the woods to make s’mores and drive their crossover SUV up the side of a little hill and take the kids to Walmart and Disneyland.
32 hour work weeks are screwed up but being given a $5 Million dollar job bonus for doing nothing and receiving $97,000 per year to sit on your thumbs watching Opie and Da View and eating bon bons. Then having all your bills paid by the government to include car loans and mortgages REALLY SUCKS FOR ALL OF US WHO NEVER PICKED COTTON OR GOT A TAN.
Exactly. Budget based on at least 40 hours.
They ignore the obvious supposedly unintended consequences.
This saves the companies money as they can pay the employees less.
More people make less.
More people can work 32 hours, not 40 so the value of the work goes down too. So people are likely to be paid even less per hour.
The companies won’t all just pay overtime and keep people at 40 hours.
So they are doing the opposite of what they supposedly intend to do.
SOOOOOOOOOOO-—
IF I have to pay a person the current rate of pay for 40 hours & they are only going to work for 32 hour:
If I am paying $20 an hour now-—they will then be getting $25 ann hour.
I need moire employees to fill in the gaps:
DO I HAVE TO HIRE THEM AT $25 an hour????????
MORE health costs/holiday pay/sick pay/”new baby leave” pay ETC ETC.
I IMMEDIATELY would have to raise MY prices by AT LEAST 25% ===MORE INFLATION
IS THERE ANYONE in Biden Administration that has ANY ACCOUNTING BACKGROUND ?????
This is a path to disaster-—at breakneck speed.
How many wars did they lose???
Applause for “Farmer John’s”
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