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Is There Any Way to Standardize Overtime Pay?

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There is a proposal, and there's legislation in the house proposed by representative mark decano california, that would basically change the fair labor standards act. The bill would simply amend that act and say that 32 hours now constitutes a straight time and to start earning overtime pay after 32 hours. There was a big study in iceland where a whole swath of workers had their hours cut by a few hours each week,. And they did a 36 hour work week. Studies found that by enlarged productivity either stayed the same or it actually went up.

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