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Bill: Ending Child Labor
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Socialists
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 2186
Description[?]:
| Recognizing the fact that child labor is a barbaric and outdated practice, I believe that it is our nation's responsibility to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. The ultimate effect of child labor is an uneducated, untrained workforce more prone to criminal acts and less likely to reach their full potential, thus harming all of society. I move for a complete ban on child labor. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Current: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:44:47, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Free Expressives | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | Agreed |
| Date | 15:12:23, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Corporatists for Quanzari | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | This is a good bill. |
| Date | 23:06:09, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Whigs | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | Ending it all together is unwise. Many families may need the support of near-adults. The current law protects children enough with additional restrictions on how much they can work. |
| Date | 01:35:45, February 14, 2006 CET | From | AntiNeoCon Party | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | children can no longer be exploited. children are willing to work for low pay, stupid, and unskilled. perfect for hard labor jobs or repetitive jobs which require little to no skill. |
| Date | 02:02:51, February 14, 2006 CET | From | AntiNeoCon Party | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | psychological studies suggest that working as a child or teen can create a lifelong aversion to work, ultimately resulting in a worse economy. |
| Date | 02:57:06, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | I agree with Whigs, lets say for instance a high schooler wants to work part time as a bus boy at a resturant, mostly on the weekends, lets say to...save up for a car or something of that nature. I don't see why not to allow that. And the current value protects these young adults from explotation in the work place. |
| Date | 03:15:43, February 14, 2006 CET | From | AntiNeoCon Party | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | while i tend to sympathise with your positon, there is not enough enfocement of government regulations. i remember working well over the restricted time when i was in highschool. |
| Date | 06:30:30, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | "Numerous academic studies show that employment up to 15 hours a week during the school year is generally a positive experience for youth, with no visible impact on education or well-being. When work hours exceed 15 hours during a school week, negative work attitudes surface, academic achievement declines, autonomy from parents increases and family interaction decreases, and drug and alcohol abuse escalates. The negative effects escalate as work hours exceed 20 hours per school week." Our great nation's boasts an excellent welfare system that has helped and will continue to help low income families provide for their children, rendering under-age work unnecessary. The time spent working could be better spent on education, community service, or extra-curricular activities. In turn, higher education leads to more scholarships and higher paying jobs, which would help a family's financial situation much more than any minimum wage job. The type of work minors could engage in are low-paying, unskilled jobs. If the family lives in a poor neighborhood, then the place where a minor would work would have a negative impact on his mental and possibly physical (smoke, violence, drugs) health. Instead, I fully support a gratis internship, community service, or research job that would build much needed skills for the future. Work should be a fulfilling, socially beneficial experience if possible. We need to think of the future of Quanzari's children. |
| Date | 06:35:33, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | "Numerous academic studies show that employment up to 15 hours a week during the school year is generally a positive experience for youth, with no visible impact on education or well-being. When work hours exceed 15 hours during a school week, negative work attitudes surface, academic achievement declines, autonomy from parents increases and family interaction decreases, and drug and alcohol abuse escalates. The negative effects escalate as work hours exceed 20 hours per school week." http://www.stopchildlabor.org/USchildlabor/education.htm Our great nation's boasts an excellent welfare system that has helped and will continue to help low income families provide for their children, rendering under-age work unnecessary. The time spent working could be better spent on education, community service, or extra-curricular activities. In turn, higher education leads to more scholarships and higher paying jobs, which would help a family's financial situation much more than any minimum wage job. The type of work minors could engage in are low-paying, unskilled jobs. If the family lives in a poor neighborhood, then the place where a minor would work would have a negative impact on his mental and possibly physical (smoke, violence, drugs) health. Instead, I fully support a gratis internship, community service, or research job that would build much needed skills for the future. Work should be a fulfilling, socially beneficial experience if possible. We need to think of the future of Quanzari's children. |
| Date | 06:50:41, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | "Numerous academic studies show that employment up to 15 hours a week during the school year is generally a positive experience for youth, with no visible impact on education or well-being. When work hours exceed 15 hours during a school week, negative work attitudes surface, academic achievement declines, autonomy from parents increases and family interaction decreases, and drug and alcohol abuse escalates. The negative effects escalate as work hours exceed 20 hours per school week." http://www.stopchildlabor.org/USchildlabor/education.htm Our great nation's boasts an excellent welfare system that has helped and will continue to help low income families provide for their children, rendering under-age work unnecessary. The time spent working could be better spent on education, community service, or extra-curricular activities. In turn, higher education leads to more scholarships and higher paying jobs, which would help a family's financial situation much more than any minimum wage job. The type of work minors could engage in are low-paying, unskilled jobs. If the family lives in a poor neighborhood, then the place where a minor would work would have a negative impact on his mental and possibly physical (smoke, violence, drugs) health. Instead, I fully support a gratis internship, community service, or research job that would build much needed skills for the future. Work should be a fulfilling, socially beneficial experience if possible. We need to think of the future of Quanzari's children. |
| Date | 15:21:26, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | (sorry about that triple post) |
| Date | 23:16:56, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | Is there any way we could compromise to pass this bill? Perhaps add another proposal? Please feel free to comment. |
| Date | 04:19:58, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Corporatists for Quanzari | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | When I started reading your arguments it was December. By the time I finished it was January. I got distracted by that damned triple post. |
| Date | 04:46:33, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Green Socialists | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | I'm sorry for the inconvenience, Corporatists for Quanzari. (side note: I'm a bit new to this, so I didn't know voting closed out so quickly. For the next bills I will leave them on debate until I either know they will pass or that they will be completely defeated. Thanks for your patience.) |
| Date | 22:16:33, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Ending Child Labor |
| Message | Also so you know, I am sick and tired of parties leaving bills up for debate and never doing anything with them, and then the party becomes inactive and the bill just sitts there. So if you're gonna do this, please at least remove the bill if you aren't going to do anything with it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 241 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 352 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 157 |
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