Posted on 08/23/2023 9:05:18 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
If this happens the teachers will want to work 3 days a week..
That's about what they have now if you figure in the Summer off and the multiple holidays.
Are you saying teachers work?
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Forty years ago Walter Harrelson in the book The Ten Commandments and Human Freedom suggested a three day weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) to provide for the weekly holy days of the major Western religions.
24 years ago, while I was still in the rat race, I looked forward to the occasional but rare 40 hour work week.
“So government should impose a 4 day work week?”
Nope
They should fire %40 of non-uniformed-military Goobermint Employees. That would give enough work for the remainder-hangers-on to fill up their day, until the next round of Goobermint Downsizing. Silent Cal did it. We can do it again.
Start at the top. The Sr Asst Sub Director of Pooly Pooly in the Department of WhatsIt makes more than the 5 Admin Assts below.
The jobs are not required, not essential and wouldn’t be missed.
Just like lots of worthless Desk Jobs in corporations pushing DEI and other nonsense.
Goobermint should get the heck out of the way and let Bidness do Bidness.
Peace to you, my Friend.
Split a larger company into multiple parts-—Presto:
NO company has over the thresh hold number of employees to trigger this.
I would sue the state.....This is none of their business.
State workers take too long to do TOO LITTLE already.
NO PAY CUT-—SAME PAY FOR LESS TIME ON JOB.
SAME PAY for 20% less hours.
NOT supportive of that.
LOL, businesses will flee Pennsylvania like a cat shot in the butt!
More businesses moving to Florida.
Florida is full! No more rat refugees!
This bill has no chance of being passed or even getting out of committee so this is much to do about nothing IMO.
However…
Some years ago, I was working in customer service in the COBRA department for a 3rd party health insurance administrator (in Maryland).
When I was hired, we had a standard 37 ½ hour work week (7.5 hours per day – 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM - 5 days a week with a ½ hour unpaid lunch). Then the company decided to go to a 40-hour work week - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM - 5 days a week with a ½ hour unpaid lunch) which was OK with me except they decided to “adjust” our hourly rate so our gross and take home would remain the same.
In other words, we’d be working more hours (a half hour per day / 2.5 hours per week) for the same pay as they lowered our hourly rate to compensate. To add insult to injury they threatened to fire anyone who complained that this was in effect a pay cut, which of course it was. Ironically, at the same time they also cut our health insurance benefits while significantly raising our payroll deductions.
I did think that lowering our hourly rate was unfair but there was nothing we could do about it, but I and many others left the company soon after.
On the other hand, I would not expect any company to pay me the same amount for working less hours.
This was also the company who wrote me up after this change to a 40-hour work week for working unauthorized OT.
The reason I recorded a half hour of OT was because it was a Friday afternoon, and a COBRA enrollee who was scheduled for surgery that Monday morning had dropped off their COBRA payment in person earlier that afternoon to get their health insurance reinstated and I was on the phone with BCBS and the customer to make sure this happened. I had let my supervisor know about the situation, but she left early for the day before the reinstatement was processed and confirmed but knew I was working on it and told me to make it happen.
However, when I was written up for working the “unauthorized” OT, I asked the senior manager who wrote me up if I was supposed to hang up on the call promptly at 5:00 PM without resolving the issue, and her answer was “yes”.
Many years earlier I worked as an administrative assistant for an architectural firm, and they had “summer hours”. During the summer we worked 8.25 hours per day Monday through Thursday and 7 hours on Friday. I loved it. The ½ more per day 4 days a week was nothing but getting off an hour early on Fridays was great!
But there was something that you could do about it, and you did it. That’s exactly the way free market capitalism is supposed to work. I hope you told management why you left.
Obviously I agree on that.
I’m tired of the barely literate drones writing news stories.
Less applies to volume
Fewer applies to numbers
I am hardly a model for proper use of English, but I look like a genius in comparison.
Wonder where they’ll find the extra healthcare workers needed to keep the hospitals staffed 24/7 on a 32-hour work week?
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