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Bill: Improving Working conditions
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakanian Democratic Socialist 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: January 2167
Description[?]:
| A BILL to install safety regulations on Industries. This will improve the health and well being of the workers without being much of a strain on the Economy. I trust CMAG and the Moderate Democrats can make a compromise with this bill... |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: There are no set health and safety regulations for industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:20:36, January 02, 2006 CET | From |  Moderate Democratic Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | Opposed |
| Date | 00:24:02, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | Would the Moderate Democrats please explain why they oppose this bill? |
| Date | 01:17:27, January 03, 2006 CET | From | CMAG | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | We oppose this bill on the grounds that it interfers in a private matter between employer and employee. An employee is perfectly able to judge the risks of employment for himself. Additionally, since worker safety and health is directly related to productivity, it would be counterproductive for a corporation to purposfully put its employees at risk. Therefore this bill represents a burden to companies without suffcient justification. |
| Date | 02:45:41, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | It is true that most industries allready treat their employees well, those industries have nothing at all to fear from these measures. However, those industries that do mistreat workers and not provide sufficient safety and health regulations will have to change. It only harms those that actualy do mistreat the workers not those that allready treat their workers well. |
| Date | 03:47:50, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Democratic Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | My explanation is juss like the one of CMAG. |
| Date | 06:27:51, January 03, 2006 CET | From | CMAG | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | Our objection stands, we will not compromise on this bill. Those companies that mistreat their employees have the market to fear. As productive enterprises gain through best managment and safety practices, the competition for labor will rob the unsafe jobs of workers. There is no need for government intervention or expenditure. If you don't like your job, or you think its not safe, then quit. If you have to work it because you're too poor, then this bill will take your job away anyways. Do you think a business poor enough to fail to impliment safety proceedures is going to be able to afford compliance with your standards? |
| Date | 16:57:42, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | supports |
| Date | 18:35:04, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Party for a Democratic Socialist Society | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | We support this bill, apparently our bourgeois parties want 19th century working conditions... |
| Date | 22:58:45, January 04, 2006 CET | From | Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | DSF does not support the mud slinging that is going on in the previous posts, the reasons for CMAG's and the MDP's objections are understandible, and i regret thier decision but i think we should all learn to respect our differences in oppinion. |
| Date | 03:13:18, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian-Socialist Coalition | To | Debating the Improving Working conditions |
| Message | The LSP votes a strong YES and urges other parties to do the same. Just because workers will accept sweatshop-like conditions doesn't mean that it's okay. Implemented in a moderate way, some light restrictions on employer abuses can create better working conditions and, moreover, a better standard of living for many working-class Jakanians. It's not that some businesses CAN'T afford to institute better labor conditions, it's that some businesses WON'T afford to. Businesses that already have good labor practices have nothing to fear, and, indeed, will probably do better in the long run. But a successful business should also reap benefits for its workers, and there is no reason that we should trust businesses to do so without threat of government regulation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 74 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 176 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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