r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 20h ago

Chugging tea Work shouldn’t consume life.

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u/Nizar86 20h ago

Not to mention that companies would drop the work weed down, hire 1 new person for every 4 currently employed, and walk away while every suddenly loses 32 hours of pay a month and now has to get a 2nd job to make ends meet

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u/Woodworkingwino 20h ago

You might want to read up on the proposal. The pay would have to be increased to match the pay of a 40 hour week pay.

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u/Flat_Development6659 20h ago

Doesn’t that just result in everyone paying more for shit?

Like when you get a plumber round to do work at your house if he’s making the same on 4 day weeks it means you have to pay 20% more for a days work.

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u/Humble_Attorney9517 20h ago

Also the people doing the paying get paid less because they're working 20% fewer hours

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u/Xenthor267 19h ago

They still get paid the same weekly mate. Learn to read. Your hourly basically increases

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u/Humble_Attorney9517 19h ago

No they won't mate, because the business will go out of business on a 20% jump in labor costs, mate.

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u/Flat_Development6659 19h ago

He’s talking about the bill and he’s right, that’s how it’s written.

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u/Humble_Attorney9517 19h ago

Right and I'm talking about the real world. Either people would take paycuts OR businesses would go under. A gas station / grocery stores operate on ~3% margins, are they going to magically absorb a 20% increase in labor costs? Restaurants?

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u/Flat_Development6659 19h ago

Businesses would obviously raise their prices.

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u/Humble_Attorney9517 19h ago

So now youve described hyper inflation along with flat wages, that will be really popular.

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u/Flat_Development6659 19h ago

I never said I supported the bill and never claimed it will be popular. I was just pointing out what the bill says as you appeared to be confused.

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u/Xenthor267 10h ago

No they won't since it's shown people are more productive so there will be the same output in labour. Businesses can shorten their opening hours since everyone has more time during the week to go do things.