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Bill: Acte Juste de Salaire
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partie Patriotique de Kanjor
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: February 2442
Description[?]:
| A bill to ensure workers have a 'living' wage. The current law only provides for a subsistance income, we feel that a full-time worker deserves and needs a higher basic rate of pay. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:59:13, August 10, 2007 CET | From |  Union Pour une Nation Homosexuelle | To | Debating the Acte Juste de Salaire |
| Message | We shall vote against this, we feel the government has no right to say what private companies pay |
| Date | 15:02:02, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Partie Patriotique de Kanjor | To | Debating the Acte Juste de Salaire |
| Message | We feel that the government has a duty to ensure that workers are not exploited. |
| Date | 01:12:36, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Kanjoran Centrist Party | To | Debating the Acte Juste de Salaire |
| Message | we feel a minimum wage above the poverty line is enought to ensure workers are not exploited, Keeping people above the poverty line is in our view enough, any further interference would be wrong in our view. |
| Date | 02:55:56, August 11, 2007 CET | From | Union Hosienne-Démocrate (UHD) | To | Debating the Acte Juste de Salaire |
| Message | Minimum wage is in now way simply "not exploitation". Any worker who produces a good or service (in essence, ALL workers: and given this defintion, EVERYONE who works) and is not given full compensation is exploitation. One of the DLP's pillars is non-exploitation. If a worker makes 5 rupees while producing a commodity that is sold for 100 rupees has, in essence, PAID (not earned) 95 rupees for their work. They are not getting the 95 rupees extra that their product has earned. THAT is exploitation. (Minus the cost of materials, transportation, etc). The DLP wholeheartedly accepts the proposed Bill as a step in the right direction. While the newly dubbed "Grand Alliance" may wish to end all protections of the workers, the DLP will fight to ensure at least a livable wage! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 187 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 188 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy is set in the fictional world of Terra, which mirrors the real world of today and yet is not quite like it. |
| Random quote: "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte |