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There's been lots written about the four day work week, this article, by Baker McKenzie employment lawyer Johan Botes, looks at the trend from a different perspective, namely, what happened when it was considered before.

Messaging as well, and it just wasnt. and so, today, their action is really shining a light on the urgency and that their demand that a speech is not going to be sufficient. they want the bill to pass. and they want commitment from the president and the vice president. they want them to call on the elimination of the filibuster or that carveout, which they dont feel like has happened yet. >> you have been covering senator manchin since he was in the state legislature back in the 80s and 90s. the...

Bird, was the conscience of the senate, a great defender of the senate, and i think manchins kind of channeling his robert c. bird as a conscience of the senate and believing that if you have a carveout for this, then you have a carveout for something else, it just adds to the divide in this country and does not unify the country. it sounds corny, but its true when manchin says he wants bipartisanship. if you want to change the rules, then do it the way youre supposed to do it. have two-thirds o...

Chucked to undue the activities of the republican legislatures, we will accept and well have constant discussions and said to them, both joe manchin and kyrsten sinema say they believe in voting rights. good, thats great. they are sponsors of the freedom to vote act and the john lewis act but just to believe in it and not change the rules and were making it clear to them, joy, that even a paragon who believed in the senate rules, robert c. bird changed nine times and i have his quote accurately ...

Same thing, ran kreis across the grounds of the capitol so fast, women ran out of their shoes and the cont opportunity of government was in question particularly on capitol hill. and robert c. bird, a senator from west virginia at the time, he had a constitutional role, president protem fourth in line to the president presidency, and he was wandering around, and there werent plans in place to make sure that people like him had a place to go. eventually they scrambled the senate leadership the ho...