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Bill: Workers Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hulstrian Labor 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 2660
Description[?]:
| Protecting workers rights to strike and form trade unions to get a \"fair go\" |
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 cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions are illegal.
Current: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All strikes are illegal.
Current: All workers have the right to strike but certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society have to ensure a minimal service.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:40:55, October 30, 2008 CET | From |  Hulstrian Labor Party | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act |
| Message | Feudal Party Spokesman - \"This is exactly why the Aristocracy have lost power, we lost touch with the people. How do low pay workers negotiate a reasonable pay increase if they do not have access to the fundamental tools to do so? Current laws favor only big wig corporate entities. Bring back the right to worker strikes and workers everywhere will have a greater standard of living. If corporations complain that they can no longer compete, then for too long they have become inefficient on the back of low labor costs, innovation will be the key for them\" |
| Date | 02:18:48, October 31, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act |
| Message | What happens when a worker does not turn up to work for weeks? He is fired. What happens when this bill is passed and the worker does not? He is still fired. But if hundreds don\'t turn up it suddenly becomes a strike and the employer must continue paying them for not doing any work. If they do not like their conditions, they should not have taken the job, or should just find a new one. The employer sets employment terms, not the employee. |
| Date | 08:00:33, October 31, 2008 CET | From | Hulstrian Labor Party | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act |
| Message | Most employees who strike are not paid on a salary, but on an hourly wage. At the end of the week it is hours x hourly rate that determines how much a worker brings home. So if an employee clocks 0 hours due to him striking, well it is 0 x hourly rate = $0. In theory they are still getting paid, but when they get their pay envelope they don\'t expect anything in their. Salary workers work on a weekly pay rate, the weekly rate can be divided into the 5 days they work and for every day they dont work that is deducted from their salary. The argument they get paid is not realistic, you are paid to provide a service, not because you signed a piece of paper. Is it fair to ask workers to move on whenever they want a pay increase? Workers are entitled to reasonable pay increases even if business owners do not think they are. But the Feudal Rights Party understands there are those who would seek to abuse this system. Changes will be made to the Act to allow government to step in when demands on either side are unreasonable. |
| Date | 16:01:41, October 31, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act |
| Message | We still remain with the issue of the very dangerous state of trade unions, perhaps the largest contributor to state socialism and economic distability. I do not agree on their unresisted existence. |
| Date | 18:15:26, October 31, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act |
| Message | I agree with articles 2 and 3, people have the right together and bargain collectively, however I do not recognize their right to special privileges as trade unions. And employers should have the right to fire employees who strike, they have a duty to keep their doors open. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 126 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 524 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." - Otto von Bismarck |