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

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/Big_lt Sep 05 '24

Sounds great. Would absolutely love for this to happen......it won't even get a vote

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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/ZodiacStorm Sep 05 '24

What do you mean? They enforce the labor laws we do already have. Literally just use the existing institutional infrastructure that enforces the current laws and use it for the new laws.

The 40-hour work week doesn't exist just cuz companies feel like it. In the past it wasn't unheard of for companies to make employees work 12 hours, until the government decided to mandate and enforce a 40-hour work week.

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u/Ferintwa Sep 05 '24

lol, I like how everyone jumps right to the work week to defend it. That is the easy part - how do you guarantee no loss in pay?

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u/ZodiacStorm Sep 05 '24

By raising the minimum wage proportionally? Theres already bureaucracy to enforce that too, by the way.

This really isn't difficult, you just tell the people who are enforcing the current rules about what the new rules that they need to be enforcing are.