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Bill: Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan
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: March 2179
Description[?]:
| Trade Unions and Employers will decide on the wage level. |
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 considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:43:28, January 27, 2006 CET | From | Bastiat Party | To | Debating the Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage |
| Message | Agree |
| Date | 00:22:15, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage |
| Message | Opposed. Again, until modern times when trade unions and such existed were workers treated well? No, their lives meant nothing to their employers, they will take every advantage they can, a minimum wage is a fair amount of payment, in fact is still probably unfair to the workers. The MIP believes that the workers making a product should nearly always be able to afford to buy it. |
| Date | 00:34:30, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage |
| Message | Those days are over. It has to do with the evolution of society. Every stage in this process has its special circumstances. Nowadays, we can leave the level of salary to the negotiations between the unions and employers for the benefit of all parties by the way. Minimum pay can differ. In times of profits salaries will rise but will be reduced in times of losses. |
| Date | 02:18:03, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Cydweith Rhydd | To | Debating the Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage |
| Message | In times of profits the directors of a company nearly always take more than they deserve, |
| Date | 12:38:41, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Abolishment Of The Minimum Wage |
| Message | The Free Collective Party makes an excellent point, we are simply saying that some kind of minimum exists so that people are not cheated, how can you be against that? And the idea that those days are over is wrong, yes in modern countries companies have to treat their workers well so what do they do? Move production to countries where they can pay pennies for a weeks labour, where they can force children to work, where governments will not get involved at all. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 133 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 102 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 166 |
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