California legislators put four-day workweek proposal on maintain
Plans to scale back the usual workweek from 40 to 32 hours at bigger companies have been shelved for now, however the invoice may return.
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A proposal to shorten the workweek for workers in California has apparently been placed on maintain.
The California State Assembly’s Labor and Employment Committee declined to advance Assembly Bill 2932, in accordance with the Wall Street Journal, stopping it from transferring ahead in the course of the present legislative session.
The California invoice may return at some stage, nevertheless. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Dist. 28), one of many legislators who has been pushing the thought, mentioned he’ll now seek the advice of with stakeholders on modifications to enhance the invoice’s possibilities sooner or later.
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The invoice, launched final month by Low and Assembly Member Cristina Garcia (D-Dist. 58), sought to amend current laws within the state and cut back the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours.
Under the proposals, employers would have been required to pay workers the identical quantity for 32 hours as they might for 40. This would allow workers to work the equal of 4 eight-hour days, somewhat than 5.
The change would apply to companies with greater than 500 staff, with sure exemptions, together with having a collective bargaining settlement with a union.
Similar guidelines have been proposed on the federal degree by US Rep. Mark Takano, (D-CA.), who final 12 months proposed laws that may additionally shorten the workweek.
Interest in a four-day has grown lately, although the thought has been mentioned on and off for many years. Trials are underway at firms together with Kickstarter, Qwick, and Unilever. Hospitality gig-work platform Qwick, for instance, started a trial final month. Workers have switched from their typical five-day, 38-hour week to 32 hours every week unfold over 4 days with the identical degree of pay.
In March, Job posting web site Indeed informed Computerworld that lower than 1% of job postings on March 11 included the time period “four-day week.” A Gallup survey of full-time U.S. workers in March 2020 — simply earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic upended many enterprise practices— indicated that solely 5% put in 4 days every week, with 84% working 5 days (and 11% working six days every week).