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Bill: Minimum Wage Reduction Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
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: November 2948
Description[?]:
| This Act will reduce the minimum wage. |
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 full time worker on it can support a family of four without falling under the poverty line.
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 single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:45:22, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, simply the CLP showing they dont want the workers to be at the front of Hutorian politics. They are on the side of employers, i am amazed that Labour went into government with them - given their record on such matters. |
| Date | 09:54:39, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, it is coming par of the course and a parliamentary ritual for me to remind this House that most of the people on the benches opposite supported this proposal when it was last made. Madam Speaker, they seem to have changed their position on almost everything! How they can live with their flip-flopping, I do not know. |
| Date | 09:58:06, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, this Bill ensures a high standard while unemployed, the CLP's an average standard. As we seek to protect the interests of the workers, we side with the status quo and the correct minimum wage stance. |
| Date | 10:03:36, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, this does not ensure a high standard while unemployed. This has nothing to do with unemployment whatsoever. It is to do with the minimum wage, which an individual only receives in work. There is a separate benefit for those who are unemployed. The gentleman either does not understand this issue or he seeks to deliberately mislead the House. |
| Date | 11:50:07, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | OOC : i meant to say employed sorry |
| Date | 11:52:13, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Baron Mancini MP, NSC Frontbencher, Madam Speaker, why do the CLP continually try to drop the living standards of the Hutorian worker? Surely as a 'working class' party - or so they claim they would surely support the status quo! The CLP are saying one thing and doing another! It shows they de-value the worker in Hutori and we cannot stand for it. |
| Date | 12:26:43, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | Madame Speaker, we support legislation as it is, the majority of low earners are the single breadwinners of families in this country, and the amount paid is only to place them above the poverty line. Madame Speaker, I am sure that the honorable lady of the CLP will agree with me that having our citizens in employment is a great priority, and I am sure that many would not work and choose to live on the welfare system if there was no incentive to work, and this provides that incentive. Moreover, if there are more workers in our system, creating more produce, in turn creating more revenue publically or privately, our economy would further develop and increase. By regulating employers to provide a good wage, we are making a mass investment into the future of Hutori. |
| Date | 12:39:57, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Minimum Wage Reduction Act |
| Message | The point is, Madam Speaker, whilst it may provide an incentive for people to look for work, it does not provide an incentive for employers to provide that work. Madam Speaker, with the minimum wage being set so ridiculously high, many employers have been forced to make employees redundant, or new employers have been forced to not take on any staff. Madam Speaker, this applies even to the public sector, where ministries have been forced to look for savings in light of the massive nationalisation programme that has taken place, and this has involved letting go of some staff and merging some jobs. This means in some cases, Madam Speaker, an individual is doing two jobs for this so-called minimum wage. The result of all this is of course that prices have risen. Because businesses have to pay so much more to employ people, they have to therefore increase the prices of their produce. This is simply leading to inflation and the vicious circle of the poverty trap. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 103 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 288 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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