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Bill: Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ducal Delegation
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: September 2125
Description[?]:
| The National Minimum Wage is a gross violation of His Grace's right to employ people at whatever rate they're prepared to accept, and he threatens to sack half of his domestic staff - pushing up Aldegar's unemployment levels - unless this ludicrous statutory requirement is scrapped immediately. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena and President of Aldegar) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:30:41, October 12, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | We are opposed |
| Date | 01:50:23, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | We are similarly opposed. |
| Date | 01:58:47, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | The PC Party would never support this and feels that it'd be a waste of the legislature's time should Ducal table this legislation. |
| Date | 11:36:08, October 13, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | The Delegation has not wasted nearly as much time as a certain insignificant peasant party which keeps proposing piece of legislation after piece of legislation without possessing a single Grand Councillor to support it :p Percy Waterman (First Minister of Aldegar and Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena and President of Aldegar) |
| Date | 16:19:52, October 13, 2005 CET | From | Junker Party | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | It will not be the government's econom y that will be hurt the most, but that of the Ducal Delegation and his Grace's. A billion dollar franchise if fighting against a trillion dollar franchise, and the smaller man will lose eventually. So, you are hurting yourself, not us - those peasants wiill and can be reemployed. |
| Date | 02:59:13, October 14, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Abolition of the National Minimum Wage Act |
| Message | Mr. Waterman forgets that the PC Party's proposed legislation often have more supporters than those of the Ducal Delegation. Whether this piece of legislation is a waste of time, it does not change the fact that we firmly oppose it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 99 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 163 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 59 |
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