[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3947 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3947

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2024

Mr. Sanders (for himself and Ms. Butler) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 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.

    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 (29 U.S.C. 207)--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) 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 such hours at a rate not less than one and one-half 
        times the regular rate at which he is employed; or
            ``(B) for a workday--
                    ``(i) longer than eight hours, but not longer than 
                12 hours, unless such employee receives compensation 
                for his employment in excess of eight hours at a rate 
                not less than one and one-half times the regular rate 
                at which he is employed; or
                    ``(ii) longer than twelve hours unless such 
                employee receives compensation for his employment in 
                excess of such hours at a rate not less than double the 
                regular rate at which he is employed.'';
                            (ii) 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
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3) With respect to any employee described in paragraph (2) who 
in any workweek is brought within the purview of this subsection by the 
amendments made to this Act by the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, the 
employer of such employee may not reduce the total workweek 
compensation rate, including the regular rate at which the employee is 
employed, or any other employee benefit due to the employee being 
brought within the purview of this subsection by such amendments.''; 
and
                    (B) in subsection (l)--
                            (i) by striking ``No'' and inserting 
                        ``Except as provided in subsection (a)(2), 
                        no''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``forty'' and inserting 
                        ``thirty-two''; 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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