Four-Day Work Week Plan Dies as Maryland Lawmakers Backtrack (1)

A first-of-its-kind proposal to encourage four-day work weeks at Maryland companies by offering them tax credits has been withdrawn from consideration at the state legislature.

The matching bills (SB 197 / HB 181) would have set up a five-year pilot program in which companies could get a tax credit for testing out a reduced work schedule with part or all of their workforce. To qualify, companies would have had to decrease weekly work hours to 32 without decreasing employees’ pay and benefits.

The House bill sponsor, Del. Vaughn Stewart (D), confirmed to Bloomberg Law in a statement Tuesday ...