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Bill: Colour Blind Nation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom and Solidarity Alliance
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: October 2102
Description[?]:
| Reaffirming its unshakeable belief in the equality of every man and woman, in Ikradon and abroad, whatever his colour, ethnicity, religious, culture or sexual preferences, Convinced that the only lasting way for a country to handle differences in its population, be they ancient or the result of immigration, is for it to respect a scrupulous neutrality on such questions, Believing that any kind of discrimination in favour of one part of the Ikradonian population is nothing less than an unacceptable discrimination against the rest of Ikradonians, Further believing that the proper criteria for any additional help from the state to individual Ikradonians should be their unique economic and social status and not their membership in any particular group, The FSA proposes outlawing any kind of discriminations by Ikradonian companies, be it in hiring, promoting, doing business with or interacting in any other ways with Ikradonian or foreign nationals. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Current: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Proposed: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:21:17, August 26, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | We agree with the principle behind this legislation. We wish that a recognized proposal existed that clarified within the system that neither positive nor negative/tradional discrimination is permitted were available. However, with the bill description making this clear, we are inclined to vote in favor. |
| Date | 00:28:49, August 27, 2005 CET | From | Freedom and Solidarity Alliance | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | The FSA's shares the PLP's wish for that option and has indeed strived to make it clear that any kind of discrimination is indeed forbidden - though it's not like we make a big difference between "positive" and "traditional" discriminations anyway. |
| Date | 14:24:59, August 27, 2005 CET | From | Underappreciated Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | The UPI believes that protecting the majority is completely unnecesary and moreover would be costly to enforce. We don't want emplolyers to have to keep precise records to ensure that they aren't accused of hiring too many or too few minorities. And if we don't enforce this legislation then it's a bill with no teeth. In any case we oppose the measure. |
| Date | 15:38:14, August 27, 2005 CET | From | Freedom and Solidarity Alliance | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | > We don't want emplolyers to have to keep precise records to ensure that they aren't accused of hiring too many or too few minorities. To do so would be a form of discrimination as well and would be totally contrary to the spirit of this law. The aim is not to introduce "fair" quotas but to banish the idea of quotas altogether. Enforcement of this law would be mainly done by allowing people with serious reasons to believe a company is discriminating against them to sue. Obviously, enforcement would be difficult, but the FSA feels that making the principle legally clear and seeing it enforced via a few landmark trials would already be a significant progress. |
| Date | 19:04:13, August 27, 2005 CET | From | Underappreciated Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | While we appreciate the position of the FSA we remain firm in our oposition. We believe that non-discrimination laws will carry many of the problems associated with discrimination laws, only more ambiguous. We believe this builds government beuraucracy, and little else. |
| Date | 00:43:38, August 28, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Colour Blind Nation Act |
| Message | We would like to point out that, although an officially recognized proposal was not available for this, right now companies are allowed to refuse to hire minorities as well as to give minorities special treatment. The description clearly states that this is to outlaw both forms of discrimination. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 240 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 169 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 20 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires. It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a court of law or otherwise discussed in public." - Unattributed member of the the House of Lords on the removal of trade union rights |