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Bill: Child Protection Act 3
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2368
Description[?]:
| OOC note: Descriptions carry the same legal effect as laws, even though they don't change values of proposals or ideological sliders; but they are no less valid than Greater Likatonia roleplay was or any other roleplay, and are in fact recorded as legislative history. Whereas, We wish to allow child labor with additional restrictions, but Whereas, We feel current restrictions are not protective enough, particularly in that they exempt very small businesses, who presumably can require all from their child laborers that they can from adults, and Whereas, We believe old law had too few restrictions on employment during the school year, as we do not wish to interefere with school as the main focus of children, and Whereas, We realize that child actors may be needed of any age but require strict restrictions, and Whereas, We wish to raise slightly, from 10 to 11, the minimum age for any other employment, We hereby propose to modify these restrictions. The following restrictions shall apply, should this bill pass: 1) No One under the age of 11 may be to be employed, outside of child actors in the entertainment industry. Within the entertainment industry, a group of former child actors, one chosen by each party with at least one Convocation seat, shall make restrictions on the employment of child actors, which for those 15 and under may not be any less stringent for any age group than that which this bill proposes for between 11 and 15 except that working hours for child actors may be up to 16 hours per week during the school year if a tutor is on the set to aid with schoolwork, but will allow for some employment of child actors of all ages. 2) Those between the ages of 11 and 15 shall be allowed to work no more than 8 hours a week during the school year, and 16 hours per week during the summer break; and only in positions defined as light, non-hazardous occupations. 3) Those minors older than 15 shall be allowed to work no more than 16 hours per week during the school year and no more than 36 hours per week during the summer break; and only in positions defined as light, non-hazardous occupations. During summer break minors older than 15 may be offered overtime that would bring their total hours as high as 48 for any given week; but the employee must be paid double for all overtime work, may not be required to work overtime nor punished in any way for declining to work overtime, and may not work overtime in consecutive weeks. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is forbidden.
Current: Child labour is forbidden.
Proposed: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:21:24, February 28, 2007 CET | From | Democratic National Party | To | Debating the Child Protection Act 3 |
| Message | Dissagree with article 2 and 3. These are too many hours. |
| Date | 00:14:01, March 02, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Child Protection Act 3 |
| Message | What would you (and any others who may wish to comment) see as a reasonable number of hours? Note that no children are required to work under any circumstances. How much do the ConLibs and others feel is satisfactory? As of current law, paper routes, etc., are forbidden. That needs to change. |
| Date | 00:23:50, March 02, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Child Protection Act 3 |
| Message | We just lowered to 8 the number of hours someone 11-15 can work during the school year. For 16-17 year olds, conventional amounts of work hours are in the bill. 11-15 year olds, at their option, can work 16 hours/week (also down from 20) in the summer. Remember, they can't be forced to take the job, and as long as the current system holds with all families receiving Child Benefit, it should never be forced. For 16-17 year olds, they are almost adults, so our primary concern is limiting their hours during the school year. However, we limit them to less than full time even in the summer (36 hours/week) except for overtime for which they must be paid double, cannot be forced to work, and cannot work any two consecutive weeks. |
| Date | 02:43:03, March 03, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Child Protection Act 3 |
| Message | We are currently willing to support. |
| Date | 06:22:02, March 03, 2007 CET | From | AM Feminazi Movement | To | Debating the Child Protection Act 3 |
| Message | All that schoolwork interferes with cheap labour. Can we look at eradicating that next? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 109 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 64 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
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