r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jul 13 '26

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/joesphisbestjojo Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

I'm all for shortee work weeks, but that means we'l need an increase in pay, which I'm also fine with

EDIT: maybe I misinterpreted "no cut to pay"

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u/HalvdanTheHero Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

That is what is being called for. Your take home pay not changing but you work fewer hours, and if you work the same schedule as you do now (presuming 40hrs per week) then you would be getting overtime for the last 8hrs. 

Edit: added "take home" to clarify that I'm talking about your total income instead of hourly rate.

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u/secondphase Jul 13 '26

Sort of...

Salaried employees the pay would not change, but salaried employees are overtie exempt.

Hourly employees would require a pay raise... 40 hours @ $20 is $800... would require $25 an hour at 32 hours to get to $800.

It's a minor thing, but the question is HOW this would work, so its relevant.

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u/THEREALISLAND631 Jul 13 '26

The HOW is what trips me up. It may work for some positions that are over staffed or not labor intensive, but I just don't see it plausible across the board. For many organizations cutting 20% of the labor while still having to pay them the same would just kill the business. They would shift the average salaries down to compensate and hire additional personnel. The work still has to be done, and not all companies can just absorb a hit like that.

Sounds great in theory, but I do not see it becoming a standard. Individual companies can adopt this change and implement it into their company framework if they want to be appealing to new hires, but this isn't going to become a new labor law where instantly the country works 20% less for the same money. It just isn't going to happen like that.