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Bill: Workers' Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Socialist Alliance
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: November 2548
Description[?]:
| To create a fairer system for the working people |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:53:50, March 18, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | The Liberal Party shall vote NO! Every employer have the right to fire workers anytime and anywhere they want. Those strikes are damaging our economy, with all those people time after time laying down their jobs to strike. We also rather see no government approval, it's up to the employers to do whatever they want with their workers, and it's not a matter fot the government. |
| Date | 21:31:08, March 18, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | You call yourselves liberal??? The workers must be able to defend themselves against cruel companies through industrial action if they can be fired they will not strike for fear of losing their jobs |
| Date | 23:35:21, March 18, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | Workers have the right to strike. But to strike every year or even every month, that will do the corporations no good! Wokers are hired to work, not to strike. I agree with you that it's fair that workers must be able to defend themselves against the corporations, but it's up to the companies to decide wheter they fire those persons or not. It's not the government's job to decide to restrict those companies with all kind of legislation. Companies must make their own ways to deal with their internal problems, not the government. |
| Date | 01:23:06, March 19, 2008 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | What about cops and firefighters? Employees considered essential services? |
| Date | 01:29:21, March 19, 2008 CET | From | Alorian Public Union | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | You make a good point MLP, but that is not the issue at hand. They are other laws in place to prevent that, if you would have checked the legislations of the land , legislation of which you passed (with my support I believe). The law prevents services consideered essential from ceasing by preventing those strikes. I am not going to assume you were trying to spin the issue at hand thing, and instead that you were genuinely ignorant of this. |
| Date | 01:29:43, March 19, 2008 CET | From | Alorian Public Union | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | BTW, i am in suppor of this bill, DSP. |
| Date | 17:46:00, March 19, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | There has to be balance in the marketplace. Striking workers need protection. But sometimes even workers overreach. Aloria is generous: we gaurantee a living wage, health care, and social security. Workers are well protected as-is. They don't need an absolute gaurantee of protection in the event of strike. Leave some discretion to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. If workers overreach: if they demand higher wages than Alorian companies can pay, or if they demand unreasonable benefits, then maybe they should be fired. Let's not tip the scales too far in favor of the workers. |
| Date | 21:53:58, March 19, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Act |
| Message | I believe that the Minister for Trade and Industry is DSP and he fully supports this act |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 284 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 420 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 46 |
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