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Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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This only works out in 9 to 5 jobs. There are ao many people out there that work very different hours. Many career fields that work a lot longer shifts wouod not be able to simply work less. It just doesn't work that way.
Firefighters work 48 or 72 hours a week depending on the week. We can't just say, ok cool. You work 32 hours a week now.
You don't understand... After 32 hours it's overtime pay instead of after 40
That's totally understandable, but the "standard" work week is 40 hours. He's just saying to change the standard. So if you're job isn't standard hours, it would probably just mean a little more overtime pay. Still a benefit to those people
The point is, why is 40 hours the standard? What makes that the standard? Who says it's the standard?
Lobbyists for the 1%....ohhhhh.......right......and now the real issue comes about.
This is the opposite of where the 8 hour day/40 hour week came from. In the US, it was fought for and won by various pro labor groups and unions in the early 1900s and became part of US law under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.