Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act

This bill would change the Fair Labor Standards Act so that covered employees must be paid overtime at one and one-half times their regular rate for hours worked beyond 32 in a week, instead of beyond 40. The change would phase in over about three years, lowering the overtime threshold from 38 to 36 to 34 and then to 32 hours per week. It would also require overtime pay at one and one-half times the regular rate for hours over eight in a workday, and double the regular rate for hours over 12 in a workday. Employers could not cut employees' pay rates or other benefits because of these changes.

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• Bernard Sanders Independent sponsor
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