Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act

The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act proposes to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to reduce the standard overtime threshold from forty hours per week to thirty-two hours over a four-year transition period. Employers would be required to pay non-exempt workers one and one-half times their regular rate for hours worked beyond this new weekly limit, as well as for daily shifts exceeding eight or twelve hours. The bill includes a provision preventing employers from lowering an employee's total weekly compensation or benefits when the new overtime rules apply.