Logistics mainly. There’s tons of jobs that you cannot just throw more people at to accomplish something, especially in complex manufacturing.
I also don’t see how you get paid the same if you’re taking 6 hours off. I don’t bring congress can mandate private companies to increase wages (other than minimum), and even if they did, businesses will not give that elevated wage to any new hires, making it so people like me have to take a significant wage cut if we wanted to switch jobs.
I know office workers love to brag about how much money they make over bluecollar workers, but that doesn’t mean it should ignore how legislation is going to affect people like us who don’t have a nice bundle of cash to fall back on. That’s how you get people like Trump and DeSantis.
If any legislation was to happen, it would be to mandate the standard work week to 32 hours, so if a company wanted to have you for 40 they would have to pay overtime. This has happened several times in history already by the way (6 to 5 day work week and 12 to 8 hour work day), so I don’t see how it would be any different.
Companies don’t pay out of the goodness of their hearts, they pay what the market demands, so if they cannot get new hires at a certain salary, they will have to increase it.
Why would my company pay me overtime rather than telling me to go home after 32 hours? My wage will be cut, the only benefit I get is a better work life balance, but that doesn’t mean much when I’ll no longer be able to afford rent.
I remember people telling us here in the rust belt that bills like NAFTA would benefit us greatly by reducing the cost of living, yet 30 years later we’re still suffering and being told to trust the same pencil pushers who promised not to screw us over last time.
Thankfully I don’t see republicans letting this bill though. We’ve suffered enough of this economic experimentation.
I never said anything was impossible, I said it will be a logistical nightmare that will hurt working class people at the expense of office workers. I’m done engaging if you’re going to intentionally take my comments out of context. Good day.
Logistics mainly. There’s tons of jobs that you cannot just throw more people at to accomplish something, especially in complex manufacturing.
I also don’t see how you get paid the same if you’re taking 6 hours off. I don’t bring congress can mandate private companies to increase wages (other than minimum), and even if they did, businesses will not give that elevated wage to any new hires, making it so people like me have to take a significant wage cut if we wanted to switch jobs.
I know office workers love to brag about how much money they make over bluecollar workers, but that doesn’t mean it should ignore how legislation is going to affect people like us who don’t have a nice bundle of cash to fall back on. That’s how you get people like Trump and DeSantis.
If any legislation was to happen, it would be to mandate the standard work week to 32 hours, so if a company wanted to have you for 40 they would have to pay overtime. This has happened several times in history already by the way (6 to 5 day work week and 12 to 8 hour work day), so I don’t see how it would be any different.
Companies don’t pay out of the goodness of their hearts, they pay what the market demands, so if they cannot get new hires at a certain salary, they will have to increase it.
Why would my company pay me overtime rather than telling me to go home after 32 hours? My wage will be cut, the only benefit I get is a better work life balance, but that doesn’t mean much when I’ll no longer be able to afford rent.
I remember people telling us here in the rust belt that bills like NAFTA would benefit us greatly by reducing the cost of living, yet 30 years later we’re still suffering and being told to trust the same pencil pushers who promised not to screw us over last time.
Thankfully I don’t see republicans letting this bill though. We’ve suffered enough of this economic experimentation.
The same reason you said a 32 hour work week is impossible, “because manufacturing”
Why does overtime exist already? The question you are asking on the face is so asinine it barely merits a response.
I never said anything was impossible, I said it will be a logistical nightmare that will hurt working class people at the expense of office workers. I’m done engaging if you’re going to intentionally take my comments out of context. Good day.