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Bill: Working Hours Act 4334
Details
Submitted by[?]: White Rose
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: February 4335
Description[?]:
| An Act to end Government restrictions on the labour market and earnings |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Article 2
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 | 13:53:32, January 16, 2018 CET | From |  Social Democratic Union (UF) | To | Debating the Working Hours Act 4334 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Who on Terra does the RCP believe this will benefit? This will allow big businesses to exploit their workforce and some people will die from over-working as a result of Article 1. It would be a stain on our great nation and the tiredness and illness this would cause would absolutely devastate productivity. Article 2, meanwhile, would just raise poverty. There needs to be some sort of guarantee of a decent and humane living standard for all and the minimum wage does just that. To take it away from people would be extremely unfair. Hard working people deserve a pay rise not a pay cut, we owe that to them. - Ella Parlow-Knight MD (Coal Cross) |
| Date | 01:41:32, January 17, 2018 CET | From | White Rose | To | Debating the Working Hours Act 4334 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, It will promote economic growth, competition and wage growth as well. The Government does not need a working hours policy, people can freely enter contracts they wish too. We owe people nothing, pay is earned, not promised by a Government that does not have to pay it, or all the other costs associated with a job. Marquis Elad Weston Leader of the RCP |
| Date | 11:27:00, January 17, 2018 CET | From | Social Democratic Union (UF) | To | Debating the Working Hours Act 4334 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, To hear the head of government and leader of the second-largest party say "We owe people nothing" speaks volumes. - Ella Parlow-Knight MD (Coal Cross) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 52 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 138 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
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