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Bill: End Discrimination in the Workplace Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive-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: June 3420
Description[?]:
| In the interest of ending discrimination in the workplace we propose the following measure |
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 encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:42:34, December 27, 2012 CET | From |  People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Under this bill,discrimination would only get worse. Equality for all,I say! |
| Date | 19:31:47, December 28, 2012 CET | From | Progressive-Labour Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | If you sincerely believe in equality then you should believe in equal opportunity. |
| Date | 20:46:30, December 28, 2012 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | I agree with the PLP. Affirmative action is the way to go! |
| Date | 21:27:15, December 28, 2012 CET | From | Democratic-Populist Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Yeah, I agree with the PLP and SDP. Affirmative action is right! |
| Date | 21:35:19, December 28, 2012 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Cobura is already a land of equal opportunity.This bill threatens to further separate the races living in our nation. Imagine two boys.One boy already hates the other for unimportant reasons. Now imagine that their mother loved the hated boy even more and gave him all the nice things. How would the first boy feel? REALLY hateful. Mabye even violent hate. What we should be doing is drawing our people closer together,not seperate them. |
| Date | 21:49:34, December 28, 2012 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | No-one is arguing that this should be a permanent measure, but it has to be in place temporarily to do a large part of evening out racial standing. We need to put it in place, then soon we can be in a position to remove it. |
| Date | 05:46:03, December 29, 2012 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Forgive me if I am not seeing your point,but this does not seem to even out racial standing in the least.Giving minorities advantages only encourages the seperation of different races in Coburan society,even if it is temporary. |
| Date | 18:33:38, December 29, 2012 CET | From | Progressive-Labour Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | It doesn't give minorities advantages it compensates for their disadvantages. |
| Date | 05:04:47, December 30, 2012 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Perhaps instead of compensating for their disadvantages we should work to remove them. |
| Date | 16:36:49, December 30, 2012 CET | From | Progressive-Labour Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Can you clarify, please? Would you like to remove the disadvantages of minorities or remove minorities? |
| Date | 16:38:27, December 30, 2012 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | I think it's pretty clear he means the former. But this bill will remove those disadvantages. |
| Date | 17:34:16, December 30, 2012 CET | From | Progressive-Labour Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | I agree with the SDP. If we were to compare this to a foot race, women and minorities are currently well behind the starting line. This bill does not give them an advantage by simply having them start ahead of everyone else; it merely places them at the starting line with everyone else. This does not guarantee that women and minorities will finish first. It does not bar anyone else from finishing first. It only levels the playing field. |
| Date | 00:37:39, December 31, 2012 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Yes,I mean the former. . What I'm saying is,why don't we try putting them at the starting line without having to balance out any disadvantages.We shouldn't have to resort to positive discrimination to help the minorities,we should promote tolerance. This also has the side effect of possibly making people who already hated minorities turn violent,at least how I see it. |
| Date | 01:01:46, December 31, 2012 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | I'm all ears about what your way to level the playing field without positive discrimination is. But if you don't have one, then I think you'll have to accept this as the best solution. |
| Date | 06:53:07, December 31, 2012 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | Yes,it seems building tolerance isn't easy. I will think about this and will find my position on it. |
| Date | 03:13:50, January 01, 2013 CET | From | People's Representative Party | To | Debating the End Discrimination in the Workplace Act |
| Message | I am unable to find a better solution at this time,so I guess I will support this. I will try to find a better solution,however. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 466 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 34 |
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