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Bill: workers rights
Details
Submitted by[?]: Representative 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: July 2129
Description[?]:
All workers will be guaranteed a minimun wage. |
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 06:30:30, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Representative Party | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | Workers should have the right to a minimum wage. This will end exploitative practices, improve the conditions of low income workers and encourage the unemployed to find work. |
Date | 07:32:25, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Front for State Prosperity | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | This is a distortion of the market that will lead to people being paid more than they are actually valued by the company. This will... 1) Create unemployment 2) Discourage small businesses 3) Create a moral disconnect between companies and employees and make companies pay less attention to the actual value of employees 4) Engender corporate resentment of government 5) Discourage people in low paying jobs from seeking education so that they can take more societally and economically beneficial jobs |
Date | 14:16:17, October 19, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | Labor is a commodity, like any other. Setting a price floor will add to the costs of doing businsee, as well as deprive the worker of the right to value his own time at whatever price he wishes. We must oppose this interference in the free market. |
Date | 18:18:06, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | Personally, the AAP is considering introducing an even higher minimum wage, since the current 'no minimum wage' or 'low minimum wage' models do not allow for families... which is ironic, in a nation that is constantly so preoccupied by anti-abortion or anti-sex-education legislation. It's another symptom of the 'care for the foetus, but let it fight for itself when it's born' mentality. |
Date | 18:51:39, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | yes, every individual should be given the chance to life, then it is up to their family to provide for them. It is harmful to the citizen and to the state for the state to have to look after a child from cradle to grave. |
Date | 20:03:39, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | Response to the Nationalist Party. How is it harmful to the state to allow a minimum wage? Surely, on a STATE basis, it doesn't matter if two illegal immigrants are paid half the wage each, or one individual receives the whole wage? What is important, is that most people still marry (or live together) and raise families. Look at the math. Minimum wage that supports ONE person = father. Minimum wage that supports ONE person = mother. What are the children being supported by? Our society complains that we are losing working population year-by-year, as more people retire than enter the work force. The SOLUTION is to increase the work force. But, at the same time, people are legislating removing the support structure that allows an individual to feed his/her family. It just doesn't add up. |
Date | 00:22:17, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | Since we already have a minimum income law in effect, maybe a minimum wage would save the central government some money as a greater percentage of this "minimum income" will come from employers. |
Date | 06:37:41, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Representative Party | To | Debating the workers rights |
Message | moving to vote |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 360 | ||||||
no | Total Seats: 140 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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