Legislation in the History of Timesizing®

• Jan/1863 - the actual original wording of the bill that ended the unlimited workweek (the U.S. Emancipation Proclamation) and hopefully the British version (1824) as well
• 1902-03 - the arbitration that limited the workday in U.S. mining to 9 hours under Teddy Roosevelt
• 1912 - the actual platform plank of the Progressive ("Bullmoose") Party regarding the 40-hour workweek for continuous-production manufacturing and for women and children
• 1922-23 - the actual correspondence with Judge Gary and the other barons of Big Steel by which Hoover as Harding's Sec. of Commerce embarrassed them into cutting their workweek from 84 to 48 hours a week
• 1930-32 - the legislation of Hoover as President that limited government employees' workweek to 44, then 40 hours
• 1933 - the Black 30-hour workweek bill that passed the U.S. Senate on April 6, the Black-Perkins compromise, and the House version by Black and Connery that got stalled in committee
• 1938 - the workweek capping sections of the *Federal Labor Standards Act: 44 hours in 1938, 42 in 1939, 40 in 1940 (the "40/40/40 plan")
• 1964 - Walter Reuther's proposal for "fluctuating adjustment of the workweek" (varying against unemployment) from the UAW Convention in Atlantic City
• 1988 - Gene McCarthy's campaign proposal for converting government overtime into jobs
• 1996-97 - the Robien Law of France: tax perks for voluntary job creation via corporate workweek reduction
• 1997 - U.S. Dellums-Conyers 35-hour workweek bill - H.R. 1050
• 1999 - France's 35-hour workweek bill, following up on the 39-hour workweek bill of 1982 = here is the text of France's 35-hour law, the *"Aubry Law" - sleuth credit to Robert Solmer of San Diego
• the Dutch and Italian bills that make part-time the equivalent of full-time in regard to benefits
• the EU Working Time Directive *original 1993 version, source credit to Leo Wetula
• the EU Working Time Directive *consolidated version integrating the 2000 amendment, again a big 'source credit' to Leo Wetula for finding this puppy
• 2003 - U.S. Family Time Flexibility Act - H.R. 1119
• For an outline of the design of the reduction of South Korea's workweek from 44 to 40 hours in 2003, see 10/18-20/2003 #1.

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