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Bill: Fair Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Labour 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: November 2945
Description[?]:
| There are many families with a mimum wage bread winner that cannot subsist properly and rely on charity. This needs to stop! |
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:27:03, May 28, 2010 CET | From |  Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Fair Wage Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, this is a reckless bill. Primarily, it will effect jobs. Small businesses will be unable to afford to pay workers such a high minimum wage and so will simply begin to make redundancies, or cut down on job opportunities. Madam Speaker, that is inevitable. In the vast public sector that we now have, this will require an even bigger and greater spending increase, hitting the very people through taxation that we are trying to help. Madam Speaker, had the Labour Party not increased taxation so heftily, there would be no need for such a bill! It gives sense to the saying, what the lord giveth, the lord taketh away. Madam Speaker, pure and simple logic aside, this bill will open the way to families becoming rich simply on the minimum wage. Is it right that a household with two parents should receive a wage that would effectively support an 8-child family, for this is what this bill suggests? Madam Speaker, such a system is not untenable. If the Labour Party want to go down this route, we would rather there was some sort of child benefit payment, not such a ridiculous minimum wage threshold. Madam Speaker, if bills like this keep being proposed, the nation will shortly be bankrupt. |
| Date | 13:21:30, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Fair Wage Act |
| Message | Sarah Marelle MP, NSC Frontbencher, Madam Speaker, i think the gentleman has over-reacted. This Act simply ensures workers are given a decent wage! This new money in circulation will simply mean that prices etc. will rise by roughly the same measure so these will even themselves out. These are simply socialist reforms that will benefit the people of the nation and we believe that under the Labour Party the financial situation of Hutori is in good hands and we have full belief that they will keep Hutorian finances firmly in check. |
| Date | 13:35:23, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Fair Wage Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, workers are already assured of a decent wage with the current minimum wage level, which ensures that a worker can get by. This proposal is extravagant and will allow individuals to pretty much live in luxury. Madam Speaker, if prices will rise as the lady tells us, then what is the point? The individuals will be no better off than what they currently are. What will happen in fact, if prices rise, is that the minimum wage will have to go up again so that it can provide for a family of four. Madam Speaker, this is an inflationary proposal that will see our finances go out of control. |
| Date | 22:06:05, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Fair Wage Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, the honorable lady is suggesting that just above the povery line is luxury! Does she not see the way her own party elite live? That, Madam speaker is luxury! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 276 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 115 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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