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Bill: Workforce bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Traxian Imperial Party
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: December 2155
Description[?]:
| We need to provide for those working in seeking work in a free and democractic way. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Current: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Proposed: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The workers' right to strike.
Old value:: All workers, except certain categories of workers regarded as critical to society, have the right to strike.
Current: All workers have the right to strike.
Proposed: All workers have the right to strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:42:47, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Workforce bill |
| Message | Why should an unskilled minority be given employment priority over anyone else. The Totalitarian Party feels employers should hire employees because of their skills, rather than their ethnicity, sexuality, or gender. |
| Date | 12:22:23, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Imperial Party | To | Debating the Workforce bill |
| Message | Indeed. 'Affirmative action' increases racial tension by increasing feelings of unfairness across the board and does not address the base issue. We feel funding a national racial/gender issues awareness program would be of much more use. We also feel that, for example, a Doctor's strike or a firefighter's strike, or a police strike could result in irreparable to damage to our infrastructure and economy. We cannot support either of these proposals. |
| Date | 22:09:58, December 13, 2005 CET | From | Post-Revolutionary Pragmatic Party | To | Debating the Workforce bill |
| Message | We feel quotes do more harm than good in the long run, and will be circumvented anyway. While activation of minority groups into the labour market is an important issue, we would prefer less direct and less compulsory methods. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 32 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 369 | |||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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