California weighs shift to 32-hour workweek for larger companies

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A new bill introduced in the state assembly would make the official workweek 32 hours for companies with 500 or more employees — with hefty raises for any work done past that cutoff.

As companies experiment with a four-day workweek, California is trying to make it a state law.

Employers subject to the law also would be barred from reducing workers' pay because they are working less, assembly member Cristina Garcia, one of the bill's sponsors, told theJob killer? "Labor costs are often one of the highest costs a business faces," Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate with the Chamber, wrote to bill cosponsor Evan Low last week.

 

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Ok... let's drive the cost of goods up by passing stupid legislation. The products or services provided by these employers will increase.

State interference in the free market has never led to success, a glance in the history books gives a clear picture what happens

And they wonder why businesses are moving out and the riff raff are moving in.

Sweden does it

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