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Bill: Living Wage Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonian Reform 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 3844
Description[?]:
| A bill to increase the national minimum wage to the level of a living 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 single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
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 | 20:12:42, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Living Wage Bill |
| Message | We believe that this would kill economic growth and reduce employment - which would do more harm to workers than the current adequate wage. |
| Date | 20:20:52, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Living Wage Bill |
| Message | Workers in Telamon are suffering because the current minimum wage is insufficient. Businesses would be able to adapt to pay a living wage and it would increase the disposable income of the workers who would reinvest this money into the economy. What will stall growth is that money being kept by the wealthy who are less likely to spend it. |
| Date | 20:53:05, May 09, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Living Wage Bill |
| Message | The minimum wage is sufficient by the definition of the word "adequate." The wealthy are not less likely to spend, they are certainly more likely to invest and grow the economy. But that is a secondary concern to the effect this measure would have on the workers themselves. This "adaption," as you call it, would cost many jobs. It would hurt start-up businesses. It would slow economic growth - growth that helps everyone. Minimum wage jobs are mostly entry-level jobs used to gain experience before moving up the pay scale. This measure would make it much harder for workers to gain experience, trapping them at the lowest levels of employment. No compassionate government would ever enact this "living" wage. |
| Date | 20:59:27, May 09, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Living Wage Bill |
| Message | We have heard all of these arguments before. Every time regulation of the markets and any labour laws are proposed, wealthy businesspeople, supported by the NRP, tell us that businesses will fail and workers will suffer. And every time those measures are implemented that scaremongering turns out to be false. One only needs to look at the many nations of the word who have implemented a living wage and whose economies have not collapsed to see that a fairer deal for our workers is possible. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 500 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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