I think that while labor regulations like this can sometimes create little bubbles of prosperity for a middle and working class, they will inevitably pop. It's

I think that while labor regulations like this can sometimes create little bubbles of prosperity for a middle and working class, they will inevitably pop. It's just too weak a lever with which to correct the disparity in power between individual workers and their employers, increasingly giant monopolies or ostensibly separate collectives of companies orchestrated by vast networks of capital and obsessed with extractive efficiency If we can't act to break up companies and diminish their power, we should act directly to remove the threats of destitution that form the alternative in a negotiation where workers are offered a bad deal, create a strong social safety net, including a basic income. These well-resourced actors have been figuring out how to work around the fiddly little rules about how their arrangements with employees can work for decades. A salaried employee won't work 32 hours any more than they currently work 40, workers will continue to be misclassified as contractors, etc