Recently, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced proposed legislation that would reduce the standard workweek in the United States from 40 to 32 hours. The Bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act” (the Act), would amend Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 28 U.S.C. § 201 et seq., removing the language that has limited the standard workweek to 40 hours since the passage of the FLSA in 1940.
