Poll of the Day > Bernie Sanders introduces legislation for 32 hour work week

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Pretty great, but I'll be astounded if it actually goes through.

he is one of the very few politicians i actually trust

im still so mad at how dirty they did him four years ago

he is one of the very few politicians i actually trust

And that's why they do him dirty.

And that's why they do him dirty.

Which is why I voted trump in 2016....which I deeply regret. I just wanted the democrats to regret sniffing out Bernie. I'm a independent so a Republican in charge wasn't that bad...but jeebus criminy how was I going to know it would be this fuckin bad? I didn't want the end of democracy.

Which is why I voted trump in 2016....which I deeply regret. I just wanted the democrats to regret sniffing out Bernie. I'm a independent so a Republican in charge wasn't that bad...but jeebus criminy how was I going to know it would be this fuckin bad? I didn't want the end of democracy.

It won't past.

As long as its written in a way that someone who works over 32 hours a week already, keeps the same yearly pay.

So someone on a wage not a salary, ans is working 40 hours every week doesnt lose 8 hours a pay a week, it will be good.

I think a better solution would be to just do away with wages entirely and move everyone to salary, in addition to requiring anyone working over a certain amount of hours a week (32 in this case) to be given compensation for additional hours worked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you want to cut my hours because you don't have enough work for me? Too bad, you still need to pay me the same regardless!"

I think a better solution would be to just do away with wages entirely and move everyone to salary, in addition to requiring anyone working over a certain amount of hours a week (32 in this case) to be given compensation for additional hours worked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, you want to cut my hours because you don't have enough work for me? Too bad, you still need to pay me the same regardless!"

im still so mad at how dirty they did him four years ago

he is one of the very few politicians i actually trust

Even a worse idea. People who work "Salary" are told all the time you work when I tell you to work. No exceptions. You'll often pull 50-60 hour weeks. No overtime, no hourly wage, same pay if you work 5 hours or 100. It's a stupid flawed idea. High end corporate jobs do that.

Meanwhile imagine doing that at McDonalds? Those people don't care about their job now, imagine if they had CONSTANT PAY . They shut down most of the time anyway and go "We don't care"

i give up hope on Bernie saving us

some councils here implemented 4 day working weeks and then were told to stop lol..

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-calls-time-on-councils-running-four-day-weeks

the sad part is most people already work 32 hour weeks
they want less people to have health insurance which is why they want you 40 hours
they know most people are too tired to work more than 32 hours in these jobs that have you put out 2x the effort for 1/2 the pay

Well that and no way is any worker outside of one with a very strict deadline requirement pushing every minute they are at work. People find countless ways to either slow their work speed or spend extra time in the bathroom or sitting at their desk doing non-work things.

Sure if you work at McDonalds it's hard to slack off unless the place is dead, but at an office job there are a dozen ways to do so unless you have a very strict deadline or boss. I find it funny that in Japan the bosses like it more when employees stay at work longer no matter what, a guy could literally be sleeping at his desk and it's past normal work hours the boss is impressed.

You are required to have a 15min break
no one in my state enforces this, you will actually get fired by the corporation for sitting down on the job

Well that and no way is any worker outside of one with a very strict deadline requirement pushing every minute they are at work. People find countless ways to either slow their work speed or spend extra time in the bathroom or sitting at their desk doing non-work things.

Sure if you work at McDonalds it's hard to slack off unless the place is dead, but at an office job there are a dozen ways to do so unless you have a very strict deadline or boss. I find it funny that in Japan the bosses like it more when employees stay at work longer no matter what, a guy could literally be sleeping at his desk and it's past normal work hours the boss is impressed.

we're all gonna be getting replaced with AI and machines before long. sure some new jobs will be created but likely something will need done to compensate.

The compensation will be 90% of the population dying in the streets.

You are required to have a 15min break

Something is only a requirement if the rule is enforced.

Amazon factories for example do a bunch of illegal shit to their employees out in the open, they know that no one is going to stop them.

Pretty great, but I'll be astounded if it actually goes through.

It defintiely won't lol but we can usually rely on Bernie to introduce things like this at least.

More than that, very often the punishment if they're caught is a fine that doesn't come close to what they save/make by ignoring the rule on a larger scale. Even if a given employee decides to report them and they get fined, the (wholly justified) fear of reprisal will keep most employees from doing the same, and more often than not they can easily eat the fine without denting the bottom line (and, in fact, there's a good chance they've already budgeted for the fine).

It's not illegal if the fine is less than the amount of money they make doing it.

Productivity in the US has gone up 400% since the '40s, but y'all still working 40 hours... If y'all were chillo you'd only need 10 hours a week to get the same quality of life as the 1940s