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Bill: Employee Health Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Populist Liberal 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 2104
Description[?]:
| Whereas, tobacco most definitely should remain legal, but Whereas, the smoking of it in indoor public places infringes on the rights of those who do not wish to breathe it, and Whereas, the employees in such establishments are particularly victimized, as they have the awful choice of breathing in others' smoke or having to quit their jobs, We propose that smoking be illegal in all indoor places of business where non-owners are employed, and also in all government-owned buildings in which people are employed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, but is illegal in government-owned buildings.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:29:57, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Employee Health Act |
| Message | We have no idea whether this bill has much chance to pass, but we do feel very strongly on the issue and it has been a while since it has been brought up. Second hand smoke is, in fact, a significant health risk, as studies not paid for by tobacco companies universally back, so while the PLP supports the rights of people to smoke in situations where others do not have to breathe their smoke, we strongly believe that people should be free from breathing the toxic fumes of others. |
| Date | 22:48:29, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Neoretropostmodernist Party | To | Debating the Employee Health Act |
| Message | Businesses should have last say in allowing smoking on their property. If second hand smoke is such a risk, let the business patrons convince the businesses to ban smoking on their premises. |
| Date | 22:55:30, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Populist Liberal Party | To | Debating the Employee Health Act |
| Message | How about employees, who may need the job enough to feel forced to keep it and put up with the invasion of their lungs? |
| Date | 23:32:56, August 29, 2005 CET | From | Freedom and Solidarity Alliance | To | Debating the Employee Health Act |
| Message | We concur with the NP. |
| Date | 02:24:45, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Lyika ati Isọdọtun | To | Debating the Employee Health Act |
| Message | As we did the last time this bill came up, we will vote against this proposal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 279 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 231 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 89 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." - Benjamin Disraeli |