Sanders will introduce a bill Thursday that would require employers to pay overtime to any workers who log more than 32 hours in a week.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill in Congress Thursday that aims to shorten the traditional American workweek without impacting how much money workers make.
"Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea," Sanders said in a statement. "Today, 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. That has got to change.
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