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Bill: Working Day
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: October 2655
Description[?]:
| Introduce limitations on the working week |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:14:32, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | Once again, we denounce the communists. We urge all parties in Mordusia, even the more liberal ones with whom we often disagree, to reject this communist party, surely you have not sunk to that level. |
| Date | 15:46:59, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Left Socialist Party | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | We can hardly see why this is Communism: there would be no employers at all anymore. We think this argument is the only serious the FRP wishes to put forward, and we regret that a serious discussion with this party appears not to be possible. We our democrats, we want to put forward our opinion, discuss about it, and in the end, after eventually looking for compromises, we vote and majority decides. If anyone doesn't agree, no one forces them too, they just can vote "no"... Why can't the FRP do like that? They prefer insults over discussions? Aren't they the democrats they pretend to be? |
| Date | 11:41:22, October 21, 2008 CET | From | Patriciate Imperial League (UCF) | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | As said in the DWC bill, we do not support the idea of encouraging Union and Workers Councils, let alone enforcing it. Businesses should be allowed to choose. |
| Date | 01:06:34, October 22, 2008 CET | From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | the government should not be intervening in the construction of consentual contractual agreements between individuals. We will never support socialism. |
| Date | 04:06:49, October 22, 2008 CET | From | Ocean Submarine League of Progress | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | How is this detrimental? |
| Date | 16:36:19, October 22, 2008 CET | From | Mordusian Austrian Union | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | Because it mandates that those that wish to work more, not work, and gives the Unions control over the individual workers, which we find unacceptable. |
| Date | 21:57:51, October 22, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Working Day |
| Message | As this bill may ban overtime, we oppose. The market will shut down businesses that abuse employees. Most work places will, and do, have an 8 hour work day, according to our surveys. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 87 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 33 |
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