Republicans pan Sanders’s 32-hour workweek bill – By Sydney Dunlap (The Hill) / March 14, 2024
GOP lawmakers pushed back against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) new proposal for a 32-hour workweek during a committee hearing Thursday, saying such a mandate would hurt workers and crush small businesses.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which Sanders chairs, met to discuss “new technology and increased productivity” and focused on the possibility of a standard four-day work week.
“In reality, there is no free lunch,” Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said of the proposal.
“Workers will be the ones who would pay — not get paid extra. The government mandating a 32-hour workweek requiring businesses to increase pay at least an extra 25 percent per hour, would frankly destroy some employers.”
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