I love the idea of a 32 hour work week.
We should not mandate that it be “four days” though --give employers and employees the flexibility to decide how to spread out the 32 hours.
As a mom, I would have loved working 6 hours a day, five days a week, and then getting early to let the babysitter go home/pick up the kids after school. An 8 hour day forces you to have a babysitter (or the grandma) do a ten hour shift, because you have to add in your travel time and lunch time.
I also do not agree to mandate “no loss in pay.”
32 hour week bills are still controversial; I have seen a federal one and a state one in CA proposed but they never made it past a committee for an actual floor vote. Many businesses oppose the idea because it increases their over-head costs, forces them to accommodate more employees and they obviously don’t want to pay 8 hours of nonwork. I would instead suggest either NOT replacing that pay, OR a small tax-funded UBI for everyone working part-time to make up for the loss of 8 hours pay. That would spread out the cost across all Americans, not just those businesses. In addition, a small UBI tied to part-time workers only would decentivize people from working a second job on top of their 32 hour weekly job.
This idea is not going to have a chance in a GOP trifecta.
I have also suggested similar ideas, coupling paid family leave with an option to request 8 hours unpaid intermittent time off weekly for certain FMLA-eligible employees only. My proposal is also likely too liberal for Trump, too, but hey just throwing this out there, because I truly believe in it:
Federal Paid Maternal Leave, Unpaid Intermittent leave & College flexibility