Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act
Bill: H.R.4728 | Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark (D-CA)
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act
This bill shortens the standard workweek under federal law from 40 hours to 32 hours over a three-year phase in period. It also requires specified overtime pay for workdays longer than eight hours.

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to reduce the standard 
  workweek from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act''.

SEC. 2. FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT.

    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 7(a) (29 U.S.C. 207(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``commerce, for a workweek 
                        longer than forty hours'' and all that follows 
                        through the period and inserting ``commerce--
                        ''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(A) for a workweek longer than thirty-two hours 
                unless such employee receives compensation for his 
                employment in excess of the hours above specified at a 
                rate not less than one and one-half times the regular 
                rate at which he is employed; and
                    ``(B) for a workday longer than--
                            ``(i) eight hours unless such employee 
                        receives compensation for his employment in 
                        excess of the hours above specified at a rate 
                        not less than one and one-half times the 
                        regular rate at which he is employed; and
                            ``(ii) twelve hours unless such employee 
                        receives compensation for his employment in 
                        excess of the hours above specified at a rate 
                        not less than double times the regular rate at 
                        which he is employed.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the matter that precedes 
                        subparagraph (A), by striking ``Fair Labor 
                        Standards Amendments of 1966'' and inserting 
                        ``Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraphs (A) through 
                        (C) and inserting the following:
                    ``(A) for a workweek longer than thirty-eight hours 
                during the 1-year period beginning not less than 180 
                days after the date of the enactment of the Thirty-Two 
                Hour Workweek Act,
                    ``(B) for a workweek longer than thirty-six hours 
                during the second year after the first day of such 
                period,
                    ``(C) for a workweek longer than thirty-four hours 
                during the third year after the first day of such 
                period, or
                    ``(D) for a workweek longer than thirty-two hours 
                after the expiration of the third year after the first 
                day of such period,''; and
            (2) in section 18(a) (29 U.S.C. 218(a)) by inserting ``or 
        workday'' after ``workweek'' in each place it occurs.
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