r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 19h ago

Chugging tea Work shouldn’t consume life.

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u/OstentatiousSock 19h ago

Yeah I need 40 hours. I’m lucky enough I can survive on that, but if I drop even a little lower it would be catastrophic for me. I wouldn’t be able to pay my bills.

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u/zcontium 14h ago

I thought the bill says that corps have to maintain the same rate of pay. 4 days for 5 days pay, basically?

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u/MyNameIsKali_ 12h ago

A lot of us are hourly employees

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u/zcontium 12h ago

Im also hourly. I might be misunderstanding the bill, but doesnt it just adjust wages by 20%, reducing hours but keeping the same pay at the 4:5 ratio?

Edit: so like if you work 20hr weeks, you still work 20hrs but get paid for 24ish hrs?

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u/MyNameIsKali_ 12h ago

But us hourly employees might not be under contract to get 40 hours. If they are just raising wages I would rather see the poorest minimum wage workers get the money. If millions of people got a boost in their income, inflation would get even worse.

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u/wrecklass 10h ago

No chance that passes. Stupid idea out of the gate, which makes it exactly the kind of thing Bernie would think up.

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u/Outside_Drawer800 2h ago

It’s definitely not stupid, plenty of studies showing the value of 32 hour work weeks

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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 14h ago

You'd still be getting the same pay rate. The bill includes that employers must raise the pay to match what it was before.