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Bill: Occupational Safety Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Equalitarian Party
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: December 2440
Description[?]:
| It is important for all developed countries to have in place a set of safety standards put in place to protect workers. Let it be known that, to further this cause, the Equalitarian Party supports the included proposals. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Current: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Proposed: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:16:56, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Mordusian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Occupational Safety Bill |
| Message | The only way I am opposed to this move is because it creates an unnessasary burden on businesses to surcum to more regulation. When I moved to remove Health and Safety regulations, I should have expanded more. Workplaces are issued with "Advisory Notices", meaning that there are certain practises that the government recommends the industry follow. Although workplaces are not specifically 'tied' to any regulation, if an injury or death occurs because of malpractise or an unsafe work environment, then that businesses becomes liable to the victim or his or her family in the case of death. Payouts can be as much as several million dollars. Thus, we find that the fear of having to pay dollars out for the sake of negligence to be enough of a balance against business who might be thinking of ignoring those unsafe pracitises of theirs. With the threat of closure because they had to pay all their profits to workers, businesses should find it then more profitable to protect their workers rather than to ignore them like many things that may or may not be swept under the rug. Hence, we are against this bill. |
| Date | 11:58:41, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Mordusian Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Occupational Safety Bill |
| Message | Unfortunately, in the capitalistic economy many businesses go through phases of seeking short-term profits. Shareholders sometimes demand extreme measures in minimizing costs and maximizing income. After a few months, shares change hands. Profit is made, everything else forgotten. Businesses take risks minimizing and maximizing. These risks can sometimes be very profitable for the capitalist. After all, they only have to pay if someone dies or is badly hurt. Therefore, for the safety of the workers it is fundamental that the safety measures are actively regulated and that businesses will be fined for misconduct even before anyone gets hurt. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 336 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 414 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle |