• Rep. Mark Takano, a California Democrat, wants to make a 32-hour work week law.
• He says it'd be part of building a new normal that reflects the past two years.
• It would also raise wages by ensuring workers get paid overtime for hours worked over 32.

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Representative Mark Takano wants you to work less — or at least collect a lot more overtime pay.

The California Democrat proposed legislation in July that would slash the standard work week to 32 hours. That also means anyone who works over 32 hours a week would receive overtime. The legislation is still awaiting a vote and recently garnered the support of the powerful Congressional Progressive Caucus.

In Takano's vision, the shorter work week would help address three of the biggest issues raging in the workplace right now: low wages, how much power workers have, and how to navigate a new work normal shaped by ongoing pandemic trauma.

"There's a great sort of opening for people to see it as part of a new normal, a new normal that they'd like to build," Takano told Insider. "800,000 Americans dying within a two to three year span has been traumatizing, and we have an opportunity now to look at the world with far more experienced eyes."

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