FT 13.12 – Thirty-Two Hour Week Act (Law)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

32 hours is a bit extreme for me. Even France is still on 35. And this isn't going to do anything to stop the move towards part-time work, which is what is actually hurting the working class.
And a 32 hour working week does nothing for the poor with multiple part-time jobs.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

And this isn't going to do anything to stop the move towards part-time work, which is what is actually hurting the working class.

This is, indeed, a significant problem: one I would be happy to work with the honorable member (and anyone else interested) in addressing by a separate bill, or an amendment to this one. My first instinct is that the best way to attack companies deliberately keeping their employees part-time would be through the corporate tax code, though I'm not sure exactly how. A more radical solution, I suppose would be to abolish part-time work entirely.

Or just institute a higher wage per hour for part-time work than full time work for medium and large companies. That's a lot simpler without entering the bounds of radical thought.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Nay