It only makes sense.
that ensuring equal compensation for fewer hours — especially for hourly laborers — is the 32-hour workweek's biggest hurdle, his bill does include non-exempt workers, and according to thehas garnered the support of labor organizations like the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations , Service Employees International Union, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
In other words: the bill's provisions aren't 100 percent airtight, but it's a step in the right direction. "The serious conversations about the reduced workweek are happening for white-collar professions," Takano. "What my bill will do is spur conversation about how we democratize this norm to other sectors of the workforce so everybody benefits."
"That's a very big statement," he added. "But it was a big deal 100 years ago when we gave people the weekend by passing the Fair Labor Standards Act," referring to the law that, among other things, cemented the 40-hour workweek as standard in the US.
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