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 lower the threshold required for overtime pay, from 40 hours to 32 hours. It would require overtime pay at a rate of 1.5 times a worker’s regular salary for workdays longer than 8 hours, and it would require overtime pay at double a worker’s regular salary for workdays longer than 12 hours.
The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would also protect workers’ pay and benefits to ensure there’s no loss in pay, according to a press release.
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.
Salaried employees aren’t the only ones that can be exempt.
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
Not that uncommon to be non-exempt salary. Our warehouse people are salaried but if they work over 40 get 1.5x
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.
There’s an FLSA overtime exemption for making over $107,432/year. That’s the threshold for no more overtime. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17h-overtime-highly-compensated
In Boston that wage is on the low side of office worker pay over 30yo.