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Bill: Living Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's 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: June 2589
Description[?]:
| To protect our people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:48:04, June 08, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Living Wage Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The state cannot afford to pay benefits to all the employees of small companies who would become unemployed as a result of this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 74 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 100 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 1 |
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