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Bill: Positive Discrimination Act 2135.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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 2135
Description[?]:
| This bill eliminates all discrimination in hiring as it prevents the government from regulating hiring practices. Currently the government decides who companies can hire with the goal of preventing discrimination. Until the government is no longer involved in hiring practices, this law will always discriminate by taking the hiring process out of the private industry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Proposed: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:52:07, November 02, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act 2135. |
| Message | Take government out of hiring, then there will be true non-discrimination in hiring. |
| Date | 22:00:11, November 02, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act 2135. |
| Message | "Until the government is no longer involved in hiring practices, this law will always discriminate by taking the hiring process out of the private industry." - That's not dscrimination. "Positive" discrimination is discrimination and this would make it legal. We stand against. |
| Date | 22:02:00, November 02, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act 2135. |
| Message | We support the UB on this. The current law isn't discriminatory as it implicitly states "No form of positive discrimination is permitted." The change you are suggesting would allow discriminatory hiring policies thus introducing the very change you claim to stand against. |
| Date | 22:06:06, November 02, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act 2135. |
| Message | Per order of government. The current law is baseless, the government is involved in the hiring practices of private companies. There is no need for government to regulate hiring practices. |
| Date | 23:20:40, November 02, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act 2135. |
| Message | How's it baseless? What's baseless is a society that would allow for private companies to discriminate at their leisure. Shouldn't it be illegal for a company not to hire someone because he or she is of a different ethnicity? These laws pave the way for rampant racism, sexism, etc. to enter the private sector. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 95 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 242 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 63 |
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