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Bill: Minimum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: PFL Irish 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: March 2514
Description[?]:
| It's ridiculously high, absolutely no need to force little corner shops to pay kids a wage that could support a family of 4 for a summer job. |
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 full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Current: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:42:20, January 09, 2008 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | Another good first step. |
| Date | 17:15:02, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Workers' Party and CTUL List | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | The major failing of the logic behind this bill is that there is a flat-out minimum wage that applies to children and family-supporting adults alike. As the Irish Party may take note, a summer job hardly qualifies a child as a "worker". And even, hypothetically speaking, if cornershops did pay children handsome wages - which does the Irish Party want more: more affluent shop-owners or fewer families under the poverty line? We believe the very creation of this bill speaks volumes of the IP's position on this issue. |
| Date | 19:50:24, January 09, 2008 CET | From | PFL Irish Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage |
| Message | Fine lets just give everyone 1,000,000,000LIK each. That would get rid of poverty wouldn't it. Why don't people just get off their asses and work for money, We believe the sole point of a minimum wage is to stop people from being abused. Stop businesses playing their employees extrememly little just because they know the employees have no other options. If these people want more money, then they can't just expect to get it straight away. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 200 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 296 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 78 |
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