1y ago

President Biden Saves The 40-hour Work Week

newrepublic.com

Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

Meanwhile, in Florida, the GOP is busy banning water breaks for working people

Please vote in November!

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Good step, but let's get that down to a 32 hour work week with no reduction in pay.
Most jobs that are OT exempt have been shown to be more productive with a slightly shorter work week.
- totally agree. I remember in the '90s, we were told that because of technology, we would have way more leisure time and everyone wouldn't have to work so hard.
  The exact opposite happened as productivity skyrockets and wages stagnate. it's time to fix that with a 34 hour work week!
  
  They've been saying that since the 1950s. Thankfully our corporate masters figured out how to fill our lives with toil so we don't have to endure the horror of enjoying them.
  
  We're literally never going to have that utopia as long as we maintain this "ownership class."
  We "don't deserve" the fruits of the increased productivity because they came with the technology and machines that the ownership class owns.
  "They deserve the profit because they paid for the machines."
  We will literally never have that utopia because the workers don't own anything.
  
  It wasn’t just the 90’s. That’s been happening since the Industrial Revolution.
  
  But that’s socialism /s
  
  Hell how many stories have there been of people getting fired for automating their job haha.
  
  But then billionaires wouldn't be so stinking rich if we did.
TL:DR; more people are going to get overtime pay.
- Thank you! The goddamned lede was buried.
- I always thought the idea of being on a salary was disgustingly abusive/exploitative. I can't believe I have coworkers that defend the idea that they work more hours but don't get paid for it.
  Like what??
  I do fully expect to see a disgusting reduction in pay coming for those salaried people though. The boss never loses.
  
  I think it’s one of those things, like non-compete agreements that make sense for a small number of people but somehow was allowed to spread to everyone.
- Suddenly, a large number of people are now classified as part-time workers scheduled for 39.999 hours a week.
Just in time for the supreme court to declare the NLRB unconstitutional
From who? Who'd he save it from? Can we get a 32 hour work week? No? Why not?
- Read the article, it’s pretty clear who the author targets as the villain here. I haven’t verified the accuracy of it, but taking them at their word: management and the GOP that let requirements of who is guaranteed OT pay dwindle. This restores what Obama did that was then dismantled by right wing judges and Trump.
  I think it has the potential of being a stepping stone, in first restoring who gets OT, to later push hours reduction before OT kicks in.

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