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Bill: Positive Discrimination Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Christian Socialist Movement
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 2759
Description[?]:
| Imagine you are a CEO of a large company where you know there is widespread, institutional prejudice against people of a certain race or gender. You know this is morally unjust, and that in the long-run it will hamper your organisation's success by failing to make the most of the talents of all your employees. But how do you go about turning that culture around? What do you do? Positive discrimination is an unattractive and clumsy policy, but if organisational leaders are serious about combatting bigotry by getting more under-representated groups employed, then it may be the least worst option available. How else do you get your recruitment officers - with all their prejudices - to give a chance to someone who is being unfairly judged because of their background? We don't like positive discrimination and we hope it will never become a permanent fixture. However, it may be responsibly used as a short-to-medium term strategy to get people from minorities into key positions and so begin the process of building mutual trust and whittling down prejudices. Simon Crossley (Leader of the Christian Socialist Movement) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Proposed: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:20:23, May 19, 2009 CET | From | Strong Republic Party | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | If such an act is to have a "short to medium term", then its needs an expiration date. How long would such a legislation run? |
| Date | 01:26:51, May 20, 2009 CET | From | Christian Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | This Act would not specify whether an organisation should use positive discrimination, nor, if so, how long it should be used as a policy. What it will do is lift the threat of criminal prosecution from an employer who practices positive discrimination as a means towards achieving greater equality of opportunity for workers who face discrimination because of their backgrounds. Simon Crossley (Leader of the Christian Socialist Movement) |
| Date | 21:18:25, May 20, 2009 CET | From | Gluaiseacht Shaoráil DhaonlathachIt | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | We agree. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 273 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 298 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 146 |
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