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Bill: Workers Rights Act 2179
Details
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: July 2180
Description[?]:
| This bill gives help and rights to workers. The first proposal helps workers easily and activley go on strike for their own reasons; The second proposal suggests a "minimum wage" that is above the poverty line for the individual. One can survive, without problems on the benefits. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Article 2
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 that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
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 | 02:32:47, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act 2179 |
| Message | Could you please allow some debate before you send these to vote? |
| Date | 02:33:42, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act 2179 |
| Message | I'd support the second proposal by itself. The first means that people can't be punished for being to lazy to quit. |
| Date | 08:45:37, February 03, 2006 CET | From | LiberalDemocraticFreedomTaxAndSpendParty | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act 2179 |
| Message | I wouldn't call striking workers lazy. |
| Date | 01:18:00, February 04, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act 2179 |
| Message | Is that because your even lazier? |
| Date | 01:18:51, February 04, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Workers Rights Act 2179 |
| Message | What would the People have to do to get the TASP to go on strike? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 39 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 49 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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