Comment on Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill

xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would assume that salaried office workers would eventually go down to 4 days as the culture of Full-time changes. That or they’d just leave for hourly positions, causing competition.

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  • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Salaried employees aren’t the only ones that can be exempt.

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    • Sc00ter@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m salaried, and collect OT. I have to log all my hours to specific contracts so we charge other groups appropriately, so we get 1.0x OT pay

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      • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not that uncommon to be non-exempt salary. Our warehouse people are salaried but if they work over 40 get 1.5x

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    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, certain positions are still exempt even if they’re hourly. In my state I think it’s managers, medical workers, and IT workers plus more.

      But yet, fulltime used to be 6 days a week until we changed the definition to 5 and now that’s the standard. Changing the standard is exactly what this likely will accomplish.

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  • just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an FLSA exemption for making over $107,432/week. That’s the threshold for no more overtime.

    In Boston that wage is on the low side of office worker pay over 30yo.

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• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes always

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• just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, the bill is just an amendment for FLSA that changes hourly workers thresholds. It does not remove exemptions in any way. www.sanders.senate.gov/…/WIL241041.pdf

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