Like a true socialist, Bernie Sanders is in favor of paying people people more to do less. In this case, he’s introducing a new bill that would move the United States to a 32-hour workweek but without cutting anyone’s salary in the process.
The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act,” would reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over the span of four years, including lowering the maximum hours required for overtime compensation for nonexempt employees. It would also require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays that last more than eight hours and overtime pay that would pay workers double their regular pay if their workday is longer than 12 hours.
A press release on the bill described it as an “important step toward ensuring workers share in increasing productivity and economic growth driven by technological advancements.”
In a press release, Sanders…
