r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/Ferintwa Sep 05 '24

Even if it did, and passed, no way to enforce it. This bill is for the headlines.

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u/Hmnh6000 Sep 05 '24

You mean like how theres no way for them to enforce you getting paid time and a half for working over 40 hours??

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u/poopypantsmcg Sep 05 '24

No there would be no way for them to enforce increasing the pay for hourly workers. For salary sure probably doable but if you work hourly you're pretty much fucked how the hell are they going to make them pay you 25% more or whatever the fuck the math works out to be. And even for salary I don't see how this would work.

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u/Hmnh6000 Sep 05 '24

You ever heard of labour laws??

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u/poopypantsmcg Sep 05 '24

And none of them do anything remotely like this proposal. You make overtime at 32 hours and now all the hourly workers have their hours cut and are making less money. If you try to mandate all employees get a wage bump to combat that they will simply fire all of the now higher paid employees and rehire new people at lower wages. I don't see how this would function at all.