{"id":1035762,"date":"2026-09-16T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035762"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:30:15","slug":"us-could-move-to-32-hour-workweek-under-new-bill-what-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/us-could-move-to-32-hour-workweek-under-new-bill-what-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"US could move to 32-hour workweek under new bill: What changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans could eventually move toward a 32-hour standard workweek under a new bill introduced in Congress. The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, would gradually lower the federal threshold for overtime pay from the current 40 hours a week to 32 hours. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would not require employers to move workers to a four-day workweek. Instead, it would change federal overtime rules so that employers would generally have to pay a premium when covered employees work beyond the new weekly threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans could eventually move toward a 32-hour standard workweek under a new bill introduced in Congress. The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, would gradually lower the federal threshold for overtime pay from the current 40 hours a week to 32 hours. The bill would not require employers to move workers to a four-day workweek. Instead, it would change federal overtime rules so that employers would generally have to pay a premium when covered employees work beyond the new weekly threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035797,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035762\/revisions\/1035797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}