Should we have a 32-hour workweek?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The 32-hour workweek. Last Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a bill to federally mandate a 32-hour workweek. Sanders’s bill is the Senate companion to a bill introduced by Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) in the House, the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32, lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime pay for non-exempt employees. Those exempt would include computer professionals, farmworkers, sales employees, and many other occupations. The proposal follows the United Auto Workers (UAW) strikes in the fall, where one of the labor demands was for a 32-hour workweek.
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| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the 32-hour work week. |
| 1:07.6 | That's right, the 32-hour work week. Everybody wants that, right? Everybody wants the 32-hour work week. That's right. The 32-hour work week. Everybody wants that, right? Everybody wants the 32-hour work week. |
| 1:15.3 | We're going to break down the proposal, why some people don't want it, a little bit of policy, wonky, economic stuff. |
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