Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a bill Wednesday that would shave 8 hours off the standard 40-hour work week that has been around for several decades.
A summary from Sanders said the legislation, called the “Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act,” would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees.
The bill would require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays longer than eight hours and overtime pay at double a worker’s regular pay for workdays longer than 12 hours, the summary said. It would also “protect” workers’ pay and benefits to ensure no loss in pay.
“Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea,” Sanders said in a statement. “Today, American workers are over 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans…
