{"id":22498,"date":"2022-05-06T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:23:13","slug":"california-lawmakers-suspend-four-day-workweek-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/california-lawmakers-suspend-four-day-workweek-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lawmakers Suspend Four-day Workweek Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_0\" data-ar-index=\"0\">California lawmakers have suspended plans to reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours in larger companies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">The law was put on hold after the California State Assembly&#8217;s Labor and Employment Committee refused to advance Assembly Bill 2932.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">The proposal was tabled by Low and Assembly Member Cristina Garcia last month.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">Workers spend 40 hours a week, spread over five days a week. The bill requires employers to pay workers the same amount for 32 hours as for 40 hours, which will allow workers to work four days instead of five.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">The amendment applies only to companies with more than 500 employees, with only a few exceptions, including a collective agreement with a union.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">Although the bill may eventually come back, some adjustments need to be made. Assemblyman Evan Low, one of the bill&#8217;s proponents, said he would consult with stakeholders on how to improve the bill, which could give the bill a chance to become law when it returns.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3659870\/california-legislators-put-four-day-workweek-proposal-on-hold.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ComputerWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California lawmakers have suspended plans to reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours in larger companies. The law was put on hold after the California State Assembly&#8217;s Labor and Employment Committee refused to advance Assembly Bill 2932. The proposal was tabled by Low and Assembly Member Cristina Garcia last month. Workers spend 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,421,58,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-governance","category-government-public-sector","category-human-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}