Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to establish a standard four-day workweek in the United States without any reduction in pay. The bill, over a four-year period, would lowe…
How does this help salaried? I’m generally at thirty two hours by Wednesday.
As for hourly, it might help for a while. Hourly pay goes up twenty five percent to make weekly pay the same, but then those wages get frozen forever. Give it five years and you’ll start seeing companies create reasons for eliminating benefits and paying even less.
I’d love a thirty two hour work week, but I don’t see any magic bullet to make it happen.
(I think my twenty five percent math was right, but I didn’t sit here with a spreadsheet to prove it out. If the math is incorrect, the point still stands)
How does this help salaried? I’m generally at thirty two hours by Wednesday.
As for hourly, it might help for a while. Hourly pay goes up twenty five percent to make weekly pay the same, but then those wages get frozen forever. Give it five years and you’ll start seeing companies create reasons for eliminating benefits and paying even less.
I’d love a thirty two hour work week, but I don’t see any magic bullet to make it happen.
(I think my twenty five percent math was right, but I didn’t sit here with a spreadsheet to prove it out. If the math is incorrect, the point still stands)