Senator Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill that would establish a four-day work week in the U.S.
If passed, the bill would lower the threshold required for overtime pay from 40 hours a week to 32 over the course of a four-year period.
The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would also protect employee wages and benefits to ensure there's no loss in pay.
Sanders said a 32-hour work week "is not a radical idea," adding that "American workers are over 400-percent more productive than they were in the 1940s.
And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago."
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