A BILL
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.
(a) SHORT TITLE.— This Act may be cited as the “Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act”.
SEC. 2. FAIR LABOR STANDARDS AMENDMENTS.
(a) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended—
(1) By redesignating subsections (b) through (q) in 29 U.S.C. 207 as subsections (c) through (r);
(2) By inserting after section (b) the following new subsection;
“(c) Employers with at least five hundred employees who are not part of a collective bargaining agreement.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any of his employees who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, 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
“(2) No employer shall employ any of his employees waho in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, and who in such workweek is brought within the purview of this subsection by the amendments made to this chapter by the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act –
“(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
(3) In section 18(a) in 29 U.S.C. 218 (a) by inserting “or workday” after “workweek” in each place it occurs