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Bill: Positive Discrimination Act
Details
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: July 4001
Description[?]:
| A motion to enforce diversity quotas in companies and government alike. |
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 encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:27:07, March 14, 2016 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we do not support positive discrimination. We will have to oppose to this. Luigi Corason Minister of Internal Affairs |
| Date | 22:07:42, March 14, 2016 CET | From | Anarchist Workers' Union | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While I support the intention of affirmative action bills, I feel that if we enforce this, unqualified people will be forced into positions that they are not prepared for. My party feels that we must oppose this bill. Elizabeth Williams, DSPL Chairwoman |
| Date | 09:37:48, March 21, 2016 CET | From | National Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Positive Discrimination Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Discrimination of any kind is unacceptable. Nothing should stop any qualified minority from reaching the highest positions in any career but this will only encourage some members of the minority community to be lazy and work less hard towards their goal. Why would you bother studying hard if Uncle big Government will favourably admit you based on your race, gender etc? This only serves to entrench identity politics. which are divisive and counterproductive. Brian Hinn NLA Chairman |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 366 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 110 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 123 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." - Edward Dowling |