The movement for a 4-day workweek is gaining ground.
Dozens of U.K. companies just wrapped up the biggest pilot program to date, with more than 90 percent of firms saying they wouldn’t go back to working five days a week. States and municipalities across the United States are considering ways to encourage more employers to give it a go.
And last week, Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) reintroduced a bill in the House that would make the 32-hour workweek a national standard and lower threshold triggering overtime compensation for most employees.
The previous iteration of the bill did not get a hearing in committee last year and could have a tough path to floor time in a Republican-controlled House. But Takano is enthusiastic about its potential to help American workers. The bill has been endorsed by 4 Day Week Global, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
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“Workers across the nation are collectively reimagining their relationship to labor — and our laws need to follow suit,” Takano said in a statement introducing the bill. “We have before us the opportunity to make common sense changes to work standards passed down from a different era.”
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