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Bill: Workers' Rights Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Left Socialist 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 2654
Description[?]:
| Defend the Workers' Rights! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Current: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:56:09, October 16, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | No! This is a serious breach of employers' rights! |
| Date | 20:36:32, October 16, 2008 CET | From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | The job market is based on the free and consenting contractual agreement between two individuals. In order for a contract to be fair and just, both parties must have equal say. If one party, in this case the worker, is allowed to demand whatever terms they wish, and the other party, in this case the employer, is unable to fight back, this means that the situation is neither fair nor just. We oppose. |
| Date | 05:30:20, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Ocean Submarine League of Progress | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | FRP: People are more important than employers. After all, people elect us to this body, not corporations. We should serve the constituents and not be beholden to this orgy of free dealing. |
| Date | 05:55:15, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Patriciate Imperial League (UCF) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | We have to agree with the FRP here. The people have rights, therefore owners of businesses should have the right to run their business however they see fit. |
| Date | 09:40:29, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | There is a serious contradiction in the arguments of the opposers of this bill: they believe its up to employers and workers to negotiate over working' conditions, but you will in practice give workers the impossibility to go on strike, since they will be fired for it... This bill encourages employers to listen more carefully to the demands of workers, and to implicate Trade Unions in the decisions of the company. Union members have better working conditions, beter wages, and thus creates much more buying power for workers so that companies can sell them their products. |
| Date | 12:47:22, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Patriciate Imperial League (UCF) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | Workers can go on strike and are not necessarily going to get fired for it. This bill does not encourage employers to listen, it forces them to give in to their employees. If employees go on strike, the employer has no choice but to give in to their demands as he has no option to fire them. This will be damaging to the profits of organisations, which affects our economic growth. Business, along with people, should not be restricted except in the case that it is absolutely vital. This is not one of those cases, in the eyes of the PIL. |
| Date | 15:32:24, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | If people go on strike, they don't get payed. So strikes never last longer then needed... |
| Date | 15:42:51, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | The right to strike is ALWAYS abused. We denounce the LSP as supporters of the unions, against non-unionized workers and employers. Employers have rights as well. Heck, they are the ones buying the employees' service. if the employers do not wish to buy the employees' service anymore, than that is their choice, their right. |
| Date | 12:59:10, October 18, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Workers' Rights Bill |
| Message | We support tentatively, however, feel that a compromise would be much better. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 93 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 102 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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