Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano are back with the same idea they have shopped for years. Their proposed legislation, the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, would rewrite federal overtime law so 32 hours counts as a full week, with no cut in pay. Takano introduced the House bill, H.R. […] The post Sanders Wants a 32-Hour Week. Somebody Else Pays for the Other Eight appeared first on StoneZone .
Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano are back with the same idea they have shopped for years. Their proposed legislation, the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, would rewrite federal overtime law so 32 hours counts as a full week, with no cut in pay. Takano introduced the House bill, H.R. 10323, on Sept. 8. It does not ban a 40-hour week. It makes hours 33 through 40 overtime, then keeps going. This is not their first time at the rodeo with this topic. Takano first dropped a 32-hour bill in 2021 and again in 2023 . Sanders ran a Senate version in 2024 and used a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to sell it. The New York Post covered that last run on March 14, 2024 ,…Open
"Covered employees would be eligible to receive overtime compensation for any hours worked beyond 32 hours in a standard workweek," the news release about the bill said
A year after President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" eliminated federal taxes on tips, overtime, and part of Social Security income, more than 30 Democrat-led states are refusing to follow suit, leaving millions of workers and retirees with higher tax bills than their neighbors in states that conformed. The gap between federal relief and state-level […] The post Democrat-led states still tax tips, overtime, and Social Security a year after Trump signed relief into law appeared first on American Almanac .
A year after President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" eliminated federal taxes on tips, overtime, and part of Social Security income, more than 30 Democrat-led states are refusing to follow suit, leaving millions of workers and retirees with higher tax bills than their neighbors in states that conformed. The gap between federal relief and state-level holdouts is now stark enough to measure in dollars. A server in Idaho who earns $25,000 a year in tips keeps an extra $1,325 because the state matched the federal exemption. A server earning the same tips in Minnesota hands roughly $1,700 of that income to the state, taxed at a 6.8% rate the legislature never bothered to adjust. Same job. Same hours. Different state capitol, different…Open
A public housing employee made more than $465,000 in a year with overtime, while apparently running two private plumbing businesses at the same time. The city is investigating.
Assembly Bill 461 would have matched a temporary federal income tax exemption on overtime that would apply to the extra pay received for working overtime up to $12,500 per year for an individual or $25,000 per year for joint filers.
Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.
Nearly a month after his family was killed at his high school hockey game by a former family member, Colin Dorgan scored a double-overtime goal sending his team to the state title game.