History Learner
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Correction, we have had minimum wage since the 30's to ensure a price floor for workers wages and that isn't what your proposing or advocating for.
We've also had the 40 hour work week since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937, as I said:
The eight-hour day might have been realized for many working people in the US in 1937, when what became the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S. Code Chapter 8) was first proposed under the New Deal. As enacted, the act applied to industries whose combined employment represented about twenty percent of the US labor force. In those industries, it set the maximum workweek at 40 hours,[38] but provided that employees working beyond 40 hours a week would receive additional overtime bonus salaries.[39]
The FLSA is also the same piece of legislation that established the Minimum Wage; one could say they are thus rather connected, no?
Your demanding the work week be separated into four days adding up to thirty six hours and when we pointed out a lot of people would be losing hourage due to that you upped the ante and implied you think it could be fixed by mandating all employers across the board raise wages (which isnt a price floor) in effect giving the government more regulation powers to fix the problems with the previous regulation that you are advocating for.
The minimum wage is a price floor but raising the minimum wage to ensure workers don't make below a certain level isn't a floor? You do see how that's contradictory, yes?
Why not just have employs be mandated four ten hour days and call it a day rather than that paradox?
Why not establish a four day, 32 hour work week instead, recognizing the same economic reality that Henry Ford did:
On 5 January 1914 the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day (adjusted for inflation: $129.55 as of 2020) and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit.[34][35][36]
Employees who are not as over-worked tend to be more productive and less accident prone, as well as reporting higher job satisfaction-thus, more loyal employees.
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