Mercury in retrograde or a sign of the end times? In a rare win for employers, the California legislature this past week failed to advance Assembly Bill 2932—mandating a 4-day workweek for large employers in the state—after the California State Assembly's Labor and Employment Committee declined to set it for a policy hearing. Sponsor and assembly member Evan Low (D-Campbell) stated AB 2932 was shelved because there was too little time to fully study its implications before taking the next legislative step—an acknowledgment of the wide-ranging effects of and the significant opposition to a law that would be the first of its kind in the United States (and many developed countries).
Currently, California employers must pay non-exempt employees time and a half for hours worked beyond 8 in a day or 40 in a workweek. Double time must be paid for hours in excess of 12 in a day. California is one of only a few states with that 8-hour daily overtime threshold, given the majority of states follow the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires overtime only after 40 hours in a week.
AB 2932 would have amended Section 510 of the California Labor Code to require private-sector employers with more than 500 employees to pay hourly workers time and a half after recording more than 32 hours in a workweek. Notably, AB 2932 would have exempted businesses that are already unionized. The bill also contained language prohibiting employers from reducing an employee's regular rate of pay...
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