For more than a decade now, a coalition of unions, workers, and left-wing activists has, through the Fight for 15 movement, focused on winning a higher minimum wage for workers, today increasingly centered on the demand of earning $17 an hour. There’s been less attention paid to whether those workers are actually working enough of those hours to make that $15–$17 count.

That’s the contention of a new report authored by Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig for the People’s Policy Project (3P) think tank, titled “Time Is Money,” which puts forward a solution to millions of underworked Americans struggling to get by in the form of legislation mandating a “right to full-time work” for employees who meet certain conditions. The idea would be modeled on similar requirements for employers to accommodate workers that already exist in laws like the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act.

“Given that employers are already required to use labor models that adhere to a slew of specific requirements, it should not be too difficult for employers to comply with new scheduling rules,” the report states. “The history of labor and employment law reforms demonstrates that, despite what they sometimes say, employers are capable of updating their labor models to follow new rules.”