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Bill: Labour Dignity
Details
Submitted by[?]: Memorare 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: August 2156
Description[?]:
| The labour force of our nation is often treated like mere machines.... Its time to give back the workers of our nation their dignity and safeguard their future. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Current: The nation allows for imports, but imposes "ethical" tariffs on nations with lower environmental and labour rights standards.
Proposed: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:01:40, December 14, 2005 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | We have no minimum wage, this leads to people being treated as cattle or slaves. We must uphold the dignity of the human person...it is our hope we can achieve this by having a minimum living wage and adding a tiny level of protection to our local industry. (we're not in favour of protectionism, but we should only have free trade with those who do likewise...) |
| Date | 22:50:41, December 14, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | For one, against two. We vote no. |
| Date | 23:02:00, December 14, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | Putting the minimum wage well above the poverty level will lead to inflation. Prices rise to match the wages, more jobs are absorbed into minimum wage making toilet cleaners and computer programmers get equal pay, and generally it leads to making Alorian money worthless and everyone being paid equally low. This is communism! If you want some kind of minimum wage, make it lower and thus fair. Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to support families. It's *minimum* wage. It's madness if a 15-year-old boy working the summer gets paid as much as a professional worker... |
| Date | 23:54:30, December 14, 2005 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | A fair wage is just, it isnt communism. At the moment we have people working for slave wages....we want a living wage...that those who work fulltime have enough to live on...not just a subsistence wage. Treating people like mere units of production and ignoring their dignity is the communist attitude! |
| Date | 00:05:18, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | I'm for minimum wage, just not that high. |
| Date | 00:34:25, December 15, 2005 CET | From |  Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | This is one of the most sensible bills I've seen around here for a while... |
| Date | 04:32:39, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | A living wage isnt 'high', its justice. |
| Date | 12:46:50, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | also this isnt a universal wage, its a minimum wage....people can of course be paid more than the minimum wage....thus I dont know if your 15 year old working fulltime example really works... |
| Date | 12:56:05, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Labour Dignity |
| Message | HCP's the swing vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 245 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 301 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 54 |
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