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Bill: Minimum wage act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Workers Union
Status[?]: defeated
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: May 2419
Description[?]:
| We belive it is a travesty that so many hard working citizens of this fine monarchy do not have the protection form the state that would give them a decent and fare vage for their ward and honest work. To many Beluzia and Bailonians are wasting away in horrible working conditions whit out getting the payment they deserve. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:31:58, June 24, 2007 CET | From | United Workers Union | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | Come on let's face it, to not have something like this is like saying the monarch can't have his eight solid gold palace whit swimming poll and private golf course, don't you agre. |
| Date | 11:38:18, June 24, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | all citizens not otherwise provided for are already given a small subsistence stipend. No need to mess up the free flow of the market for social welfare. |
| Date | 11:54:15, June 24, 2007 CET | From | United Workers Union | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | but there is a need and a duty to do so, that small subsistence stipend doesn't provide nearly enofh that the working man and his family deserve |
| Date | 16:07:51, June 24, 2007 CET | From | The Rabble | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | Support |
| Date | 16:44:29, June 24, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | All this will do is price unskilled labour out of the market. A massive increase in base wages will cause a large inflationary pressure on a economy that is finally becoming competitive... |
| Date | 20:17:40, June 24, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | We oppose. For economic reasons. It will cause unemployment of exactly those people this bill is trying to help. |
| Date | 22:57:50, June 24, 2007 CET | From | United Workers Union | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | "It will cause unemployment of exactly those people this bill is trying to help" what? that is the biggest nonsense that i have heard in a while (and i listen to the speeches of George W Bush) The only reason you oppose is becose the big company's that finance your campaigns will get less profit and won't be able to kick workers around any more. |
| Date | 23:02:01, June 24, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | The people do not "kick" their workers! a light spanking can work wonders! |
| Date | 00:10:59, June 25, 2007 CET | From | United Workers Union | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | heh :-) , not any more |
| Date | 01:28:16, June 25, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | Hardly! Even if this bill (which is failing, despite the help of your seats ;) passes, I still have my slaves, haven't I? *Cackles himself hoarse whilst merry midgets caper for his amusement* |
| Date | 01:40:36, June 25, 2007 CET | From | United Workers Union | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | yup, for now you have your slaves, so what the problem? Give the true Beluzians a decent vage and let the slaves caper for your amusement (Cackles as he knowes that slavery is almost baned) |
| Date | 01:44:30, June 25, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | That is SO not cackle-worthy! |
| Date | 18:38:18, June 25, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum wage act |
| Message | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/Wage_labour.jpg/380px-Wage_labour.jpg |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 349 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 401 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes |