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Bill: Labour laws of 2458
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Conservative Party
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: February 2459
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Proposed: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on Democratic Workers' Councils.
Old value:: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Current: The government encourages the formation of Democratic Workers' Councils through subsidies and tax exemptions.
Proposed: The government does not intervene in the marketplace with regards to Democratic Workers' Councils.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:02:03, September 21, 2007 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Labour laws of 2458 |
| Message | ADAMANTLY, ADAMANTLY, ADAMANTLY opposed. This Administration has worked TIRELESSLY in ensuring that we have a Democracy in Rutania of Workers AND Free Market Capitalists, hence our party's name. |
| Date | 11:24:03, September 21, 2007 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Labour laws of 2458 |
| Message | The Classical Wage theory in Economics is WRONG!!! It states that as the wages of employees increases, the DEMAND for labor decreases in an "inverse relationship" thus causing unemployment. However, this is all true only in THEORY and I would even concede in the SHORT-term. However, in the long term it is FURTHER from the truth. Workers are NOT going to take those extra increases in their paycheck to invest them in Swiss Bank accounts or go to the Bahamas. Rather, they are going to take that money go to the MALL (Wal-Mart, etc.) and SPEND, SPEND, SPEND in the economy thus making the employers RICHER. Next, proponents of this THEORY contend that since labor represents a cost to the employer, this would in turn cause a rise in INFLATION (prices go up). However, this is not true b/c once Demand exceeds the Supply, the "Invisible Hand" of the Free Market (that Adam Smith eloquently preaches about) will cause the employers to increase SUPPLY thus creating equilibruim in the economy w/o unemployment and inflation. Sources? In 1944, when the unionization of workers was at its PEAK at 44% (in the U.S.), the unemployment rate was at its LOWEST point in history at 1.2% plus inflation was literally NON-existent (mostly b/c the Nation's money supply was linked to GOLD). The reason--as dictated by common sense--is that while this labor costs increases the burden on the employer, the already wealthy corporation would just ABSORB the higher costs in order to keep its company's prices at a COMPETITIVE rate in the market. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 333 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 318 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 99 |
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