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the senator made the case that workers are overworked and able to keep up productivity. on the panel push back. we will show you portions of the hearing. if you want to comment on the idea of a shorterk if you approve of it or create new problems or opportunities you could call us on the lines and tell us what you think about a federally mandated 35 hour workweek. texas if you wish at (202) 748-8003 and post on facebook and on x. the lead up to that hearing which you can still see on their website at c-span.org and the apis c-span now taking a look at seto a press proposal saying workers

share in the massive increasintw technology with lead to a 32 hour workweek. american workers are 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940's and millions of americans are working more hours for lower wages. this has got to change. there are text available online butor sanders deduced -- reduce the standard work we to 32 hours. lower the maximum hour threshold for compensation. overtime pay for work days longer than eight hos. that would increase double regular pay for work daysonr

than 12 hours. one aspect of the proposal that would protect workers pay that a reduction in the workweek does not cost a lost and pay. what do you think about this idíwea about reducing the work week to 32 hours? should it be an act of congress if you want to call and let us know full-time workers (202) 748-8000, for business owners (202) 748-8001 and all others (202) 748-8002 you can text us at (202) 748-8003. the opening statement came from senator sanders and cassidy commenting on this proposal. [video clip] >> while ceos are making 350 times as their employees workers are seeing their family life fall apart as they are forced to spend more time at work.

they are missing their kids birthday parties, little league baseballtheir family. what stresses them out further is that after spending all of this time at work, many of them still are working paycheck-to-paycheck. they can't take care of their basic needs. a moment in history when artificial intelligence there her buttocks and i hope we understand that the jobs people have a going to be there in 15 years. our economy will be transformed through a i a robotics. do we continue the trend that technology only benefits the people on top? o we demand these transformational changes benefit working people? one of the benefits must be a lower workweek. >> that this policy is

implemented it would threaten small businesses operating on a razor thin margin because are unable to find workers. now they have the same workers but only for three quarters of the time and they have to hire more. in fact, there is an incentive to dip make everyone full-time if they won't have to pay certain penalties required for full time. if a business wants to voluntarily try of 32 hour workweek the law allows it. i will not the senator has not done it with his staff why? if a business needs to maintain

a 40 hour workweek locally but globally, mandated 32 hour workweek would be catastrophic. host: that was from yesterday's hearing and you c-span.org or ts c-span now. some of their testimony took place at the hearing making the testimony against the 32 hour workweek. for full-time workers the number is (202) 748000, for business owners (202) 748-8001 all others can call in at (202) 748-8002. you can feel free to text at (202) 748-8003 and post on social media sites at facebook.com/cspan or x cspanwj. richard, a full-time worker what do you think of this proposal?

caller: i don't think anything like that should be mandated. ■pas far as thinking that's a requirement for businesses, a lot of businesses are more than 40 hours a week. they might be as seven days a week. i ended up working part-timat jn entertainer. i needed time. it worked out well for me but no employer if you are at the hours i was, 24 would still give you benefits. the way it is right now, we don't have enough workers to supply the jobs that are out there now. just agriculture p anderiod get

employees to cover your hours. i don't know why this is coming up. if a business wants to do that and that is what you are hired to do but not having a band-aid, that's my opinion. host: senator sanders said yesterday it's hard to see it would pass the house and senate but the idea of the 32 hour workweek from the federal government. what do you think? caller: i think the gentleman in front of me said he had done the 32 hour workweek i did too, i am retired. it was six years ago in west virginia. i appreciated it. i really enjoyed working four days a week. it was nice because i still got benefits, i still got good pay.

i didn' want any of the stuff on, i guess you said bernie sanders got it forth. i just wanted to give my opinion that i really appreciated it itt virginia. host: the four day work week, was that 10 hours a day? how does that work? caller: yes, it was more hours a day and i happen to work overnights. i was an overnight support manager and i do not think they do it anymore. i am not sure about that. i do not think they offer it anymore but i was just appreciative of it. just like bernie said, you had

more time with your family and you could get more done. i did see the little clip you showed. i just wanted to say that. host: did it change your attitude about going back to work on monday? caller: oh yes. i think it was refreshed. i just knew that the four days would be long hours but i don't know, me personally, i appreciated it. i really like the four day week. for the four day week. at 32 hour workweek case from senator sanders. you can suprt it or oppose it. we have a line for others. let's hear from george in st. louis. caller: thank you for taking my call.

it doesn't apply to me, i am retired. when i did work i was an outside salesman. my philosophy was i never thought i was that good but i would outwork everyone. i worked harder, more hours, 6, 7 days a week if that is what it took to make the amount of money i needed to make. as far as -- i■.■jon't believe t should be mandated. a lot of people are working less than 32 hours getting paid for a full week when they are working at home. that is very hard to monitor. as far as congress, i would like to tell bernie sanders, i think you fellas need to work longer hours. you get nothing done no matter how many hours you work. when you have a bill that needs

to be passed, the budget and they go weekends i get nothing done. or they go during this crisis on the border and they give vacations. they should stay in the room until they get the things done. host: let's hear from naj■i hope correctly. caller: i work 4 10s, i work in the medical field. i find that after a three day weekend when i get back, in my ofession t is a lot of burnout. i would time, this was unheard of. i work in pathology, i working a lot. you had to be at work every day five days a week but because a

lot of people are streaming away you are now becoming more creative with the time. host: go ahead i'm sorry. caller: am a health care traveler. in every state they had adopted the 4 host: is not a common thing in the health care field? caller: it is becoming common now but it was unheard of. i work as a pathologist and i fit in the field since 2005. i remember, years ago it was

frowned upon. but now the biggest thing people want now is flexibility. host: that is a health care worker in delaware giving us a call period. that industry, another industry, maybe you have a traditional workweek or a shorter week. (202) 748-8000 for full-time workers of what you think about this mandated 32 hour workweek. for business owners if you want to give you perspective (20 and) 748-8002. they recently did a pollut the four-day work week and this is what they found. it is becoming more popular among full-time work with 84% of full-time workers saying they endorse that 32 hour workweek. 32% supporting hybrid work.

the majority of full-time workers would sacrifice something for 32 hour workweek. they would sacrifice something at work, 5rc they would work longer hours or change jobs or industries. 27% would work in the offe more than 10% would take a pay cut in exchange for a shorter workweek. perhaps you are one of those who would make one of those sacrific paulette in alabama on the line for others. caller: hello, i waed ton a grd i worked the night shift and i was working full-time at the grocery store but also working part-time at the thrift store during the day. part-time was anywhere between 32-30 eight hours because i was part-time.

they already have that established they don't have to writ's already been established and if you work part-time, you get 32, 34, 38 hours. i am retired now so i'm not working in the grocery store business like i was doing once upon a time. whou are full-time you get 40 hours when you work part-time, is somewhere between 32, 38 hours. host: the proposal had caller: that would be nice if they could it. if you wanted that money you would work those hours. they wouldn't pay you full-time for 32 hours. if they can work it out so you

can get paid the full pay for 32 hours, i would say oh boy. when i was working, it was considered part-time and you did not get a full 40 hours if you were part-time. host: that was probably giving her experience of the grocery field. let's hear from a full-time worker matt in new york. call i'm definitely imposed the government trying to mandate to private businesses what kind of hours their employees work. as between the employees and businesses. but it ended up not working out so well for france. anyone can look that up when they wanted to go back to 40 hours, they had strikes, riots,

all kinds of things happening over this stuff. everybody likes a free ride that's what were talking about here. host: say that what you mean by that? caller: the free ride? host: yes. caller: a 32 hour work week and i assume socialist bernie means you still get paid■6 that woulde proposal. caller: that sounds just like bernie. if he could get away with it everyone would get a check and would not have to work. host:■pép that was met in new yk about the senator's legislation. a country that engaged in a four day work week the website tech.com has a list of five countries with that idea. belgium is the first country to

legislate a four day work way. belgians can complete the hours of five days within four days. united arab immigrants put all government employees on a four day worko# week if they choose . it doesn't cover every single worker, 90% of the workforce is employed by the government. in iceland, with 350 thousand people more workers are working a four day work week. lithuania has a blanket wall that enacted legislation in 2021 so parents with young child wee. as the caller mentioned, france saying that although they don't legally enforce a four day work week it has been common for businesses to offer that due in

part to the fact that france tried to 35 hour work day and it's unlikely to ever be overturned. work a four-day week. that is how other countries look at this idea of a shortened work week. you can add your thoughts about whether it will work in the united states. if you oppose or support a federally managed or the idea of a shortened work week and whether it would work or not. justin in south dakota, a full-time worker. callerg. i definitely support the proposal. ■ístudies conducted in one of te scandinavian countries that workers that got the same pay for 32 hours of work, they did

not lose any productivity. they weren't milking the clock. people were more alert and attentive. say, if we had a genuine democracy of course we would end up wh policies that benefit the worker over the employer because the employee is the fast majority. globally it's 99%, may be in the united states is closer to . but almost everyone is a worker. host: justin in south dakota there. in new mexico let's arstacy on . caller: good morning. i believe we should not mandate businesses or people's lives and their work hours.

've worked many more hours, overtime. ■i think the 32 hour work week r the flexible work we can of that could be used as an incentive. if want more people and people want to work 32 hours, make that an option. it should be an incentive that employers could use. but to mandate, i'm not all for mandating that kind of thing. host: do you think a 32 hour work benefits some other than others? caller: yes, yes i do. there are people here -- if you

make $15 an hour, you want to work 40 hours to be able to take care of their families. if you make 80 bucks an hour at 32 hour work week looks pretty good. mandating that is not the way to go. stacy in new mexico. one of the people the senators heard fromú- john lee lent the founder of a company called kickstarter in the co-chair of the four day work week campaign. he was asked about the idea of the four day work week of what he does for productivity and here's some of that exchange. [video clip] >> tell us a little bit about the impact it is sad, the transition of t four day work week, the impact his title of the workers there. >> it's been transformative for

the workers. i have been told this one of the most impactful thing they have experienced in their lives because they are able to spend time with their ki. they learn new skills, they can use ai and brought back into the workplace and more efficient as a result. ■bthey are learning new skills that are not related to work. participating in the community. >> are workers more phuket is -- focus when they come back? >> they are better focused, and team stay together longer. the cohesiveness of the organization is more robust because you'repeople out, churnh them in turnover costs. >> talk about turnover. one oth is turnover. what with the impact of a 32 hour workweek be on them? >> it was shockingow muc it

changed turnover and the effect on productivity. we have rarely lost an employee in the last two people have lone don't have to deal with hiring, the cost of hiring someone else. articles don't get disrupted by this sudden departure of an employee. people want to work. the notion that americans are lazy are inaccurate. people want to work but in no way that's balanced with the rest of their lives and they will stay in their jobs longer if rest of their lives. host: that hearing was yesterday. you could come in on the■z ideaf a federally mandated 32 hour workweek. if you think it would work (202) 748-8000 for full-time workers, business owners (202) 748-8001 all others (202) 748-8002.

joseph from baltimore, texas a 32 hour benefits the employers and employeesecause it allows time for general relaxation. we have been overworked for too long. this is david from florida, we don't need a shorter work week need corporations to pay people fairly for the work they do. i should be paid a hundred thousand dollars more but my company doesn't provide a pension, makes me pay 15,000 for insurance but does not provide me any of their stock. this is tony from florida saying senator sanders is being unserious. 32 hours would drive us down to mediocrity like countries like france. you can text us at (202) 748-8003.

post on social's you want to do that. this is joe in north carolina on online for others on the idea of ether it should be mandated. caller: i used to work for republic steel negotiated a 13 k vacation in the senior group, a 16 week vacation for the junior group. their thinking was we will give them 13 weeksy will go ahead and take the 13 weeks and we will be able to hire new people, more people and work. that did not work out. everyone took their bonus week and got paid for it and worked their regular weeks. you will not work on this. i don't know if they did it but that was the steelworkers union's. it is hilarious.

the people side why should i throw away all that money on a bonus week and i can go ahead and work and make double the money. host: what separated the senior and junior group? caller: if you worked there six years you moved into the junior group. if you work nine-ted group you worked into the senior group. it was based on how many years shworked. when you got your page you got your tonnage and that was such a farce. some people would take their 13 weeks but young people and the old-timers, they did not take it. i didn't take it either and i own my own business when i got out of the mill. my people

had to work. i was a general contractor. i build homes, docks. and younpe in your line of work0 hours of work could not be done in 32 hours? caller: not in my own business and not in this deal mill. we had a ml the foreman would s, 12 hours, 16 hours. host: from jack on our line from others, he is from pennsylvania. caller: bernie has promoted great ideas and i think he was also in favor of having a $25 and our minimum wage in the six week paid vacation, family leave for both parents and health care and daycare for everybody.

my only question is, where can i get an application to work with him because it sounds like utopia. you're not for the idea. caller: the guy is a hypocrite. he promotes up for everyone else why can he do it? all these people who want to promote these gifts that they want business owners to do why don't they get off their lazy rear end to do with themselves. they have the ability, the power and freedom to do it. they want to propose it for everyone propose it for everyone else and mandate it for everyone else, and that is the problem i have with people like bernie sanders. aside from the senator who made the legislation, what is wrong with 32 hours in your mind? caller: nothing. i've got no problem with that, but you cannot mandate an employer to do that. you can't do that, because they are not doing the work.

these politicians are sitting behind a desk forcing people to do things they won't do themselves. host: rudy is a full-timenp worr in california. your next up on the idea of a mandated 32-hour workweek. hello. caller:, i am supporting workiny four days, 10 hours, three days off like they do in the health-care industry. i work in service industry where you are working 50, 60 hours five days a week and that is tiring on the body. i think the way that they are framing it as a 32-hour workweek is the wrong way to do it. i think it should be framed as four on, three off like an health care. host: what do you think the advantages are of the four-day week? caller: you are still giving to your employer what they need plus two hours more. instead of an eight hour day

you're giving them 10 hours so that they can use you more efficiently, effectively, and longer if need be for those 10 hours. for us, the employees, that know that i'm going to grind it out for four days but i get three days off, the advantage is knowing that i have a longer break period or longer time off. host: rudy in california making the case for a 10 hour day four days a week. maybe that's something that you can support over a 32-hour week. let us know. the radio station kqed gives a little bit of a historical aspect of the 40 hour workweek saying, let's rewind to the industrial revolution where workers were not uncommo days s. workers were not in disagreement which led to the labor movement by the 1880's. the slogan on everyone's lips were eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will. henry ford shock the workweeby s

assembly line and please do 40 hours a week. when the great depression hit in the 1930's the u.s. workweek saw the shorter workweek as a way to fight the massive unemployment crisis. that we need to hire more workers to get it done. they made the 40 hour workweek the norm in the 40's and it has been that waiver cents. the proposal from senator sanders, should it become law? it would shorten the 40 hour time frame to 32 hours with the same rate of pay for the week. let's hear from robert on the line for others in illinois. caller:my answer is a little bit complicated, so i hope that you can bear with me. i did work a 32 hour workweek. it was out of necessity. my last employer was the federal government. i had a horrible manager. to deal with the stress and whatnot, i voluntarily went to being an 80 per

i work 48 hour days in a week. i tell you how this worked out. it in some ways didn't work out well. i worked monday, tuesday, took wednesday off because i can only handle it in two-day doses. then thursday and friday. my problem with this is because of the manager, again, he kept trying to take advantage of it. he gave me the equivalent of a five-day worker caseload expecting me to do it in four days. this is another aspect that people don't think about. i think of unions. we had a union and the union was always fighting him over what he kept trying to do to me. if the unions can negotiate a 32-hour■: workweek, i think that that's great. i don't think that it works in the general economy very well. previously i taught college and was a business consultant.

i had to work 60 hour, 70 hour weeks in order to get the job done. it isn't like i'm lazy or didn't want to work, but circumstances are person-to-person. the guy who called from pennsylvania a few minutes ago nailed it on the head. in one final comment, bernie sanders, thank god we have a guy like him in the senate. he points out a lot of issues that need to be discussed. most of the time, his solutions or horrible. the impact on the economy, the impact on what happens in the social structure and relations, and work relationships between employers and bosses, and some of his things that he advocates i think would be horrible. host: robert in illinois sharing his own personal experience. he mentioned the color from pennsylvania. another pennsylvania caller, a business owner from derry, pennsylvania. caller: morning.

i think that the 32-hour workweek is a thinly billed inimum wage. if you're going to pay 40 hours for 32, just raise the minimum wage. ld have that effect. host: how so? caller: if i making $1000 a week that is $25. still making $25 working 32, it is going to be $33 an hour? it way to raise the wage. host: as a business owner, what do you think of the idea overall of shortening the workweek? ■÷caller: the previous caller mentioned working four 10's which i don't have an issue with, because we have a certain work load that needs to get done, we need to get product out the door. so i need to hire more people now to work on friday? it is not like we are going to shut down.

maybe we'll just hire a different crew working tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, so we wl do you know what i'm sayi? host: what kind of work do you do? caller: we manufacture packaging materials. host: is your standard workweek 40? how does it work for your business? caller: yeah. five eight-hour days is what we have right now. host: sharing his experiences, ron sharing his experiences as a business owner. another business owner in texas. for business owners, (202) 748-8002 if you want to call in. cliff, hello. caller: we are talking about working and working hard. they're talking about it is something we love or don't love. i think a little levity sometimes can help. this is a little

tongue-in-cheek, but maybe you will get a kick out of it. i run a business and i had a person who looked for me to come in and said, i want my salary doubled and i want as good of a health plan as you have. thi said, i'll tell you what. i will give you even more salary than you wanted and an even better health plan. he said, you've got to be kidding me? i said, you started it. host: inand a little levity to a of a 32 hour workweek. you can contribute the same if you wish. a couple of kid■s on thedea of a shorter workweek. this one comes from fo this was in december of 2021, just so you know. s time, working only four daysk might not leave employees with less timean to take care of life matters and aorstressful workaday packed

ven more meetings. the negativeide of a four-day workweek is employers will the four days trying to force the out of date five-day workweek into a four-day model. it will create more stress, less time to take care of life as it happens. that was in forbes. a recent piece last year from the colorado sun, their columnist wrote about the idea of a four-day workweek. critics of the 32 hour workweek claim working less is impossible that somehow businesses will fail to thrive and innovation will slow. there is little to suggest that these fears are bound improvements in the work-life balancd help thek showing the 32 hour workweek, when they are implemented effectively workplace productivity doesn't decrease. given the productivity is not decreased, worker pay cuts should be off the table. a couple of thoughts. you can add that to your opinion

if you want to get one on the phone lines. this is james, the line for full-time employees. caller: hello good morning. there are some angry callers. listened to a few of them earlier. i am a full-time employee. i work in the finance area of a local government in north texas. we had(■; a 7:00 to 6:00 40 hour four-day workweek. if you don't know, there are a lot of organizations that 40 hours -- 40 hours in our industry is not enough. we work a lot of hours in the local government and 32 hours will put in a lot of stress. i agree with the forbes article. working 7:00 to 6:00 means that you have to put off a lot of things that you need to do during the week.

yet to put it off on friday. so, you are shifting all of the things that you need to do during the week to your days off. you lose that time off. i know a lot of employees who work 7:00 to 60 monday through thursday and sleep all day on friday to try to recover. that is not a good quality of life. their healthimpacted because of the four-day workweek. their quality of life is less. the cost -- the one guy earlier said that is a wage increase, that's correct. if you're being paid 40 hours at x now you are working 32 hours, that is a price increase. the price increase of less hours gets passed on to the consumers, to people buying things. your cost will go up because the cost to create things is going up. one thing that has not been mentioned it's over time. you are talking 32 hours, your overtime costs go up.

host: ok. caller: you are meeting the minimum threshold much sooner. now you have to hire more people. your health care benefits and all of the other costs go up. to me, it doesn't make sense. i know some employees can do it. especially if your industry is able to handle it. a lot of us who work, especially on the local government side, 40 hours isn't enough. we worked 50host: gotcha. james in texas giving his thoughts. you can give your thoughts on x as part of a general response poll. at the time when i pulled it up, here's the question, do you su oppose the federally mandated 32-hour workweek? 50% each saying support and oppose that idea. it may change as the hour goes on, but you can add yours. you can find the poll at our x

site @cspanwj. caller: good morning. i support a 32-hour workweek and i'm tired of these businessmen coming on here and telling these lies that are very clearly see through. working less is hurting my employees quality-of-life. give me a break. i had a company that sold vapes to adults. working less doesn't decrease productivity at all. this has been said multipltimes. giving a four day work week, 32 hours a week, doesn't show a noticeable decrease in productivity. regardless, i think that the whole debate is missing the forest for the trees. the reason isver looked at a cht shows the productivity of a

worker, their dollar value versus their wages over the past -- a number, 20, 40, 100 years -- what you realize is that it has been absurdly increasing in terms of the amount of work that a person is doing and what they are being paid for it. yet the person is not a worker or laborer. when we ■atalkut this amount of hours that someone needs to work in a week, he generally feels like -- and to be clear, e could obviously support it for these reasons. right? host: in california, giving his thoughts talking about statistics and research that has been done. that was a bit of pushback from one of the republican guests yesterday at the washington university talking about studies taking a look at 32 hour work weeks and what they produce as far as productivity is concerned. here's a portion from yesterday's testimony. [video clip]

>> given the types of companies that aretially capable of cutting their workweek, we could see a divide of the rich getting richer, having more time, and the poor needing to take on three part-time jobs in order to pay the bills. we also could potentially disadvantage older workers who cannot necessarily physically do the same amount of work in a this happened to the great detriment of that population during the great depression. in terms of increased productivity, shortening the week the statistics aren't there. there are studies that show the opposite. as dr. cassidy said, from 1988 to 1996 the result was not a big u.s.. economic output by 20% -- was noteconomic output fell by 20%. cutting the workweek, the results were blasted over the headlines as an overwhelming success.

what is not reported on is the icelandic government, or rather taxpayers, now have to shell out almost $30 million extra per year to hire for health care workers because of this experiment. spain where there is a pilot program the companies that participate get access to a multimillion dollar governmepar. microsoft also tested a four-day workweek by shutting down its japan office every friday for august. the statiscal claim is that this resulted in a 40% increase in productivity. this is a statistical fallacy. the correlatisn't necessarily causation. productivity increased over a very short time during a lope activity month when overall productivity was already at a 75-year low. there is no statistical evidence the 32 hour workweek.

host: the hearing yesterday in the senate looked at senator sanders' proposal for a 32 hour workweek. plaintiff testimony from a variety of people. you can find it online at c-span.org and follow along and seet app at c-span now. you can talk specifically about the proposal of a federally mandated workweek that is 32 hours and the idea as well on the line. (202) 748-8000 for full-time workers. business owners, (202) 748-8001. all others, (202) 748-8002. joe in arizona on the line for others. caller: hello, how are you doing this morning? host: thanks, go ahead. caller: i'm kind of against it. i think that it's rich that bernie sanders is the one pushing this thing. you have to understand bernie sanders' history. when he moved to vermont he was on a community activist. then he was elected to the burlington city council and from there he became mayor.

from there, he became a representative, u.s. house representative. then he became senator. this guy has never worked in the private secr, never had a real job. i found it rich that he is supporting this kind of a program that's controversial. host: overall? caller: i think that it's nuts. you can't shrink someone's workweek and expect them to produce the same amount that they would have under a 40 hour week. that means that people are going to have to -- companies will have to hire extra people. that's going to add to their cost. i think it's crazy to expect employers to pay employees a full salary for 32 hours work. based on a 40 hour week.

that is just not feasible. host: marty is next in the louisiana on the line for others. caller: good morning. good morning. i am a bus operator, but i did work in the aerospace industry at a mission site in northwestern louisiana. we switched to a 10 hour four day work week. the whole factory, everyone, enjoyed it. it gave time for downtime for maintenance of that they could prepare all of t maintenance times. for a vast plant and the amount of electricity that would shut down one the people enjoyed it. they knew when they were getting off. 32 hours, i am still trying to my head how it worked, but the four-day 40 hour workweek worked.

we did shorten some of the break the people were happy to be off on fridays. they got a weekend normally, now it is longer. host: you are saying that that changed how they felt on monday? caller: yeah. they are ready to go to work. rested. host: marty in louisiana. thanks for the thoughts and input, marty. the recent column in the wall street journal looks at the shortened work week, but it also gives this aspect on something that marty brought up when ithey saying, picture fridays when the offices are closed, texting is on hold, and emails can wait until monday. it isn't a day off by default. fridays become theay when employees tackle focused work since they will not be interrupted by email, text, or phone calls.

if someone is so efficient that they complete their they may tae friday as personal time. you can get the benefit of clarity. we won't be expected to take meetings or calls and we won't be able to reach our colleagues. it is a nice perk and incentive to be extra efficient the rest of the week to$p have flexibility on friday. if you want to receive more, you can see that at the wall street journal. louisiana, the line for others, david, hello. yes, i just want to make a comment on the workweek. with inflation as baas is, 32 hours and then you have to find another job to just try to make the same amount of money you were making four or five years ago. you have to have two jobs to stay even with inflation. thank you. host: jay in syracuse, new york.

a full-time worker. caller: good morning, pedro. i'm on 3.5 on, 3.5 auth per week and it's been that way for a long time. it's a union job in a hospital. the nutrition department. and i am out wednesdays at 1:00 and go back sunday at 7:00 a.m. every week. there is a little overtime coming five years. i am older, 60. it is chill with a lot of downtime. everyone i work wi les i couldn't imagine how it would work with 32 hour weeks and mandatory overtime would be every day for us.with the union, you never know, but i see that really impacting the small guys and mom and pops load -- won't worry.

perhaps some compromise with a minimum amount of employees for large companies only. by the way, companies can offer that right now if thas a hiring incentive. so, there's that. host: in new york, a full-time worker in massachusetts. caller: i think that this is rey interesting. i am in my early 60's. i was a high school teacher for a long time. my husband passed away when he was 30, so i was struggling with kids trying to pay for after school care while i was still working away. and then outside of work there was teacher's work. i think workforces are going to struggle with a 32 hour wo think in the medical field, for instance,

residents are overworked. i think that there are mistakes made in the hospital from people being overly tired. cultural anthropologists discovered the hunter gatherer populations onlyapproximately 2o survive. at this point, i am working 24 hours full-time caregiving parents with cancer and parkinson's. age the body starts to break down. i'm struggling financially because i can't afford to pay for someone else to care for my parents> maybe partly at home, partly at the office kind of situation and

certain manufacturers -- are you going to stop building a house one day a week in the middle of the fall when you're trying to get ahead of which are? i think that it's a case-by-case situation. it is hard to have a one size >> we are going to leave this for what is expected to be a short house session. you are -- no votes are planned. you are watching c-span. tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the spr.