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Bill: Positive Discrimination Act

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Christian Universalist 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: May 2470

Description^[?]:

Positive discrimination has a legitimate role in rectifying in-build prejudices which exist in the recruitment policies of large organisations.

Proposal^[?] to change Positive discrimination.

Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.

Current: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.

Proposed: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	20:33:04, October 10, 2007 CET
From	Fabulous Party
To	Debating the Positive Discrimination Act
Message	Calling any form of discrimination "positive" is just absurd.

Date	21:59:57, October 10, 2007 CET
From	Indralan Council for Universal Democracy
To	Debating the Positive Discrimination Act
Message	Affirmative Action...effectively fighting discrimination with discrimination.

Date	02:57:32, October 13, 2007 CET
From	Jewish National Party
To	Debating the Positive Discrimination Act
Message	We do not believe positive discrimination is the solution to "rectifying in-build prejudices." This is simply a band-aid fix. The root causes of the prejudices themselves need to be addressed.

Vote

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yes

Total Seats: 11

Total Seats: 64

abstain

Total Seats: 0

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