Equally bad, there are lots of hourly employees who work 32 hours and would like to work 40 hours and get benefits.
Pushing 32 hour work week feels tone deaf when lots of people aren't working 40 hours.
Equally bad, there are lots of hourly employees who work 32 hours and would like to work 40 hours and get benefits.
Pushing 32 hour work week feels tone deaf when lots of people aren't working 40 hours.
Within a few decades culture changes and working 40 hours would be looked at in much the same way we work at 50+ hours. Even then there will still be people working 80+ hours to make ends meet but fixing that is basically fixing poverty which is definitely much harder.
benefits should not depend on how many hours your work
Ideally, yes. However, there are many small businesses and franchises who cannot afford to offer benefits to all their part-time workers. This would result in a marked decrease/elimination of part-time employment opportunities -- opportunities often essential to the livelihood of the working class, who work part-time to supplement their full-time income. For many of these people, who are among the hardest workers in our society, that part-time job is the only thing holding preventing them from sinking under. They don't want, or need, benefits from their part-time job when they already receive benefits from their full-time job, receive federal/state sponsored health insurance OR pay for their own especially when said benefits come at the cost of their ability to financially support themselves. Most people would rather be able to provide for themselves than exist in an inescapable state of welfare-dependency brought on by well-intentioned but damaging initiatives.