The senator made the case that workers are overworked and able to keep up productivity. On the panel push back. We will show you portions of the hearing. If you want to comment on the idea of a shorterk if you approve of it or create new problems or opportunities you could call us on the lines and tell us what you think about a federally mandated 35 hour workweek. Texas if you wish at 202 7488003 and post on facebook and on x. The lead up to that hearing which you can still see on their website at cspan. Org and the apis cspan now taking a look at seto a press proposal saying workers share in the massive increasintw technology with lead to a 32 hour workweek. American workers are 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s and millions of americans are working more hours for lower wages. This has got to change. There are text Available Online butor sanders deduced reduce the standard work we to 32 hours. Lower the maximum hour threshold for compensation. Overtime pay for work days longer than eight hos. That would increase double regular pay for work daysonr than 12 hours. One aspect of the proposal that would protect workers pay that a reduction in the workweek does not cost a lost and pay. What do you think about this idiwea about reducing the work week to 32 hours . Should it be an act of congress if you want to call and let us know fulltime workers 202 7488000, for Business Owners 202 7488001 and all others 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. The Opening Statement came from senator sanders and cassidy commenting on this proposal. [video clip] while ceos are making 350 times as their employees workers are seeing their family life fall apart as they are forced to spend more time at work. They are missing their kids birthday parties, Little League baseballtheir family. What stresses them out further is that after spending all of this time at work, many of them still are working paychecktopaycheck. They cant take care of their basic needs. A moment in history when Artificial Intelligence there her buttocks and i hope we understand that the jobs people have a going to be there in 15 years. Our economy will be transformed through a i a robotics. Do we continue the trend that technology only benefits the people on top . O we demand these transformational changes benefit working people . One of the benefits must be a lower workweek. That this policy is implemented it would threaten Small Businesses operating on a razor thin margin because are unable to find workers. Now they have the same workers but only for three quarters of the time and they have to hire more. In fact, there is an incentive to dip make everyone fulltime if they wont have to pay certain penalties required for full time. If a business wants to voluntarily try of 32 hour workweek the law allows it. I will not the senator has not done it with his staff why . If a Business Needs to maintain a 40 hour workweek locally but globally, mandated 32 hour workweek would be catastrophic. Host that was from yesterdays hearing and you cspan. Org or ts cspan now. Some of their testimony took place at the hearing making the testimony against the 32 hour workweek. For fulltime workers the number is 202 748000, for Business Owners 202 7488001 all others can call in at 202 7488002. You can feel free to text at 202 7488003 and post on social media sites at facebook. Com cspan or x cspanwj. Richard, a fulltime worker what do you think of this proposal . Caller i dont think anything like that should be mandated. ■pas far as thinking thats a requirement for businesses, a lot of businesses are more than 40 hours a week. They might be as seven days a week. I ended up working parttimat jn entertainer. I needed time. It worked out well for me but no employer if you are at the hours i was, 24 would still give you benefits. The way it is right now, we dont have enough workers to supply the jobs that are out there now. Just agriculture p anderiod get employees to cover your hours. I dont know why this is coming up. If a business wants to do that and that is what you are hired to do but not having a bandaid, thats my opinion. Host senator sanders said yesterday its hard to see it would pass the house and senate but the idea of the 32 hour workweek from the federal government. What do you think . Caller i think the gentleman in front of me said he had done the 32 hour workweek i did too, i am retired. It was six years ago in west virginia. I appreciated it. I really enjoyed working four days a week. It was nice because i still got benefits, i still got good pay. I didn want any of the stuff on, i guess you said Bernie Sanders got it forth. I just wanted to give my opinion that i really appreciated it itt virginia. Host the four Day Work Week, was that 10 hours a day . How does that work . Caller yes, it was more hours a day and i happen to work overnights. I was an overnight support manager and i do not think they do it anymore. I am not sure about that. I do not think they offer it anymore but i was just appreciative of it. Just like bernie said, you had more time with your family and you could get more done. I did see the little clip you showed. I just wanted to say that. Host did it change your attitude about going back to work on monday . Caller oh yes. I think it was refreshed. I just knew that the four days would be long hours but i dont know, me personally, i appreciated it. I really like the four day week. For the four day week. At 32 hour workweek case from senator sanders. You can suprt it or oppose it. We have a line for others. Lets hear from george in st. Louis. Caller thank you for taking my call. It doesnt apply to me, i am retired. When i did work i was an outside salesman. My philosophy was i never thought i was that good but i would outwork everyone. I worked harder, more hours, 6, 7 days a week if that is what it took to make the amount of money i needed to make. As far as i■. ■jont believe t should be mandated. A lot of people are working less than 32 hours getting paid for a full week when they are working at home. That is very hard to monitor. As far as congress, i would like to tell Bernie Sanders, i think you fellas need to work longer hours. You get nothing done no matter how many hours you work. When you have a bill that needs to be passed, the budget and they go weekends i get nothing done. Or they go during this crisis on the border and they give vacations. They should stay in the room until they get the things done. Host lets hear from naj■i hope correctly. Caller i work 4 10s, i work in the medical field. I find that after a three day weekend when i get back, in my ofession t is a lot of burnout. I would time, this was unheard of. I work in pathology, i working a lot. You had to be at work every day five days a week but because a lot of people are streaming away you are now becoming more creative with the time. Host go ahead im sorry. Caller am a health care traveler. In every state they had adopted the 4 host is not a common thing in the Health Care Field . Caller it is becoming common now but it was unheard of. I work as a pathologist and i fit in the field since 2005. I remember, years ago it was frowned upon. But now the biggest thing people want now is flexibility. Host that is a Health Care Worker in delaware giving us a call period. That industry, another industry, maybe you have a traditional workweek or a shorter week. 202 7488000 for fulltime workers of what you think about this mandated 32 hour workweek. For Business Owners if you want to give you perspective 20 and 7488002. They recently did a pollut the fourDay Work Week and this is what they found. It is becoming more popular among fulltime work with 84 of fulltime workers saying they endorse that 32 hour workweek. 32 supporting hybrid work. The majority of fulltime workers would sacrifice something for 32 hour workweek. They would sacrifice something at work, 5rc they would work longer hours or change jobs or industries. 27 would work in the offe more than 10 would take a pay cut in exchange for a shorter workweek. Perhaps you are one of those who would make one of those sacrific paulette in alabama on the line for others. Caller hello, i waed ton a grd i worked the night shift and i was working fulltime at the Grocery Store but also working parttime at the thrift store during the day. Parttime was anywhere between 3230 eight hours because i was parttime. They already have that established they dont have to writs already been established and if you work parttime, you get 32, 34, 38 hours. I am retired now so im not working in the Grocery Store business like i was doing once upon a time. Whou are fulltime you get 40 hours when you work parttime, is somewhere between 32, 38 hours. Host the proposal had caller that would be nice if they could it. If you wanted that money you would work those hours. They wouldnt pay you fulltime for 32 hours. If they can work it out so you can get paid the full pay for 32 hours, i would say oh boy. When i was working, it was considered parttime and you did not get a full 40 hours if you were parttime. Host that was probably giving her experience of the grocery field. Lets hear from a fulltime worker matt in new york. Call im definitely imposed the government trying to mandate to private businesses what kind of hours their employees work. As between the employees and businesses. But it ended up not working out so well for france. Anyone can look that up when they wanted to go back to 40 hours, they had strikes, riots, all kinds of things happening over this stuff. Everybody likes a free ride thats what were talking about here. Host say that what you mean by that . Caller the free ride . Host yes. Caller a 32 hour work week and i assume socialist bernie means you still get paid■6 that woulde proposal. Caller that sounds just like bernie. If he could get away with it everyone would get a check and would not have to work. Host ■pep that was met in new yk about the senators legislation. A country that engaged in a four Day Work Week the website tech. Com has a list of five countries with that idea. Belgium is the first country to legislate a four day work way. Belgians can complete the hours of five days within four days. United arab immigrants put all Government Employees on a four day worko week if they choose. It doesnt cover every single worker, 90 of the workforce is employed by the government. In iceland, with 350 thousand people more workers are working a four Day Work Week. Lithuania has a blanket wall that enacted legislation in 2021 so parents with young child wee. As the caller mentioned, france saying that although they dont legally enforce a four Day Work Week it has been common for businesses to offer that due in part to the fact that france tried to 35 hour work day and its unlikely to ever be overturned. Work a fourday week. That is how other countries look at this idea of a shortened work week. You can add your thoughts about whether it will work in the United States. If you oppose or support a federally managed or the idea of a shortened work week and whether it would work or not. Justin in south dakota, a fulltime worker. Callerg. I definitely support the proposal. ■istudies conducted in one of te scandinavian countries that workers that got the same pay for 32 hours of work, they did not lose any productivity. They werent milking the clock. People were more alert and attentive. Say, if we had a genuine democracy of course we would end up wh policies that benefit the worker over the employer because the employee is the fast majority. Globally its 99 , may be in the United States is closer to. But almost everyone is a worker. Host justin in south dakota there. In new mexico lets arstacy on. Caller good morning. I believe we should not mandate businesses or peoples lives and their work hours. ve worked many more hours, overtime. ■i think the 32 hour work week r the Flexible Work we can of that could be used as an incentive. If want more people and people want to work 32 hours, make that an option. It should be an incentive that employers could use. But to mandate, im not all for mandating that kind of thing. Host do you think a 32 hour work benefits some other than others . Caller yes, yes i do. There are people here if you make 15 an hour, you want to work 40 hours to be able to take care of their families. If you make 80 bucks an hour at 32 hour work week looks pretty good. Mandating that is not the way to go. Stacy in new mexico. One of the people the senators heard fromu john lee lent the founder of a Company Called kickstarter in the cochair of the four Day Work Week campaign. He was asked about the idea of the four Day Work Week of what he does for productivity and heres some of that exchange. [video clip] tell us a little bit about the impact it is sad, the transition of t four Day Work Week, the impact his title of the workers there. Its been transformative for the workers. I have been told this one of the most impactful thing they have experienced in their lives because they are able to spend time with their ki. They learn new skills, they can use ai and brought back into the workplace and more efficient as a result. ■bthey are learning new skills that are not related to work. Participating in the community. Are workers more phuket is focus when they come back . They are better focused, and team Stay Together longer. The cohesiveness of the organization is more robust because yourepeople out, churnh them in turnover costs. Talk about turnover. One oth is turnover. What with the impact of a 32 hour workweek be on them . It was shockingow muc it changed turnover and the effect on productivity. We have rarely lost an employee in the last two people have lone dont have to deal with hiring, the cost of hiring someone else. Articles dont get disrupted by this sudden departure of an employee. People want to work. The notion that americans are lazy are inaccurate. People want to work but in no way thats balanced with the rest of their lives and they will stay in their jobs longer if rest of their lives. Host that hearing was yesterday. You could come in on the■z ideaf a federally mandated 32 hour workweek. If you think it would work 202 7488000 for fulltime workers, Business Owners 202 7488001 all others 202 7488002. Joseph from baltimore, texas a 32 hour benefits the employers and employeesecause it allows time for general relaxation. We have been overworked for too long. This is david from florida, we dont need a shorter work week need corporations to pay People Fairly for the work they do. I should be paid a hundred thousand dollars more but my company doesnt provide a pension, makes me pay 15,000 for insurance but does not provide me any of their stock. This is tony from florida saying senator sanders is being unserious. 32 hours would drive us down to mediocrity like countries like france. You can text us at 202 7488003. Post on socials you want to do that. This is joe in North Carolina on online for others on the idea of ether it should be mandated. Caller i used to work for Republic Steel negotiated a 13 k vacation in the senior group, a 16 week vacation for the junior group. Their thinking was we will give them 13 weeksy will go ahead and take the 13 weeks and we will be able to hire new people, more people and work. That did not work out. Everyone took their bonus week and got paid for it and worked their regular weeks. You will not work on this. I dont know if they did it but that was the steelworkers unions. It is hilarious. The people side why should i throw away all that money on a bonus week and i can go ahead and work and make double the money. Host what separated the senior and junior group . Caller if you worked there six years you moved into the junior group. If you work nineted group you worked into the senior group. It was based on how many years shworked. When you got your page you got your tonnage and that was such a farce. Some people would take their 13 weeks but young people and the oldtimers, they did not take it. I didnt take it either and i own my own business when i got out of the mill. My people had to work. I was a general contractor. I build homes, docks. And younpe in your line of work0 hours of work could not be done in 32 hours . Caller not in my own business and not in this deal mill. We had a ml the foreman would s, 12 hours, 16 hours. Host from jack on our line from others, he is from pennsylvania. Caller bernie has promoted great ideas and i think he was also in favor of having a 25 and our minimum wage in the six week paid vacation, family leave for both parents and health care and daycare for everybody. My only question is, where can i get an application to work with him because it sounds like utopia. Youre not for the idea. Caller the guy is a hypocrite. He promotes up for everyone else why can he do it . All these people who want to promote these gifts that they want Business Owners to do why dont they get off their lazy rear end to do with themselves. They have the ability, the power and freedom to do it. They want to propose it for everyone propose it for everyone else and mandate it for everyone else, and that is the problem i have with people like Bernie Sanders. Aside from the senator who made the legislation, what is wrong with 32 hours in your mind . Caller nothing. Ive got no problem with that, but you cannot mandate an employer to do that. You cant do that, because they are not doing the work. These politicians are sitting behind a desk forcing people to do things they wont do themselves. Host rudy is a fulltimenp worr in california. Your next up on the idea of a mandated 32hour workweek. Hello. Caller , i am supporting workiny four days, 10 hours, three days off like they do in the healthcare industry. I work in Service Industry where you are working 50, 60