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Bill: Mininum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Junker Party
Status[?]: passed
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: January 2123
Description[?]:
| It's shocking to know that Aldegar, the beacon of democracy, has no mininum wage laws. It is to say, our workers are perhaps the most underfunded of all, when we subsidize certain businesses and nationalize the armaments industry. What incentive to we offer our workers? How have we survived so far with a policy that dates back to the Medieval era and the early Renaissance? The Junker Party implores all to grant a mininum wage based on the poverty line, where a single worker, working full time, is guaranteed a wage that allows him to 'live well'. It is to say, above the poverty line. Imagine the United States which has a population that is around 20% under the poverty line. Now imagine us. Aldegar most likely has over 60% of its population under the poverty line, allowing for business managers to abuse their workers, with the latter able to do nothing. Is this not why we went thorugh the 1910s and 1920s? Please, grand then what they need to survive. |
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 | 21:06:57, October 07, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Mininum Wage |
| Message | We agree. |
| Date | 12:04:40, October 08, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Mininum Wage |
| Message | His Grace thinks peasants are too expensive as it is already. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 185 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 86 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 50 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "Changing the way we measure things is vital. So is decompartmentalising society making sure that economics and politics are not divorced from other crucial areas of life." - David Attenborough |