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Bill: Employee Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ikradonian Faith Party
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: April 2197
Description[?]:
| The IFP understands that the economy isn't served by unnecessary worker strikes. However, we find it to be dangerous when workers can be fired when their employers find that a strike was without reason. We think it is not up to the companies to decide on the necessity of a strike of its workers. Therefore, we propose a policy change to force companies to ask the government for permission to fire a worker they find went on strike without a good reason. Our economy and all our workers will be better for it. --- Genc Ruli --- Minister of Trade and Industry |
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 can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:18:13, March 06, 2006 CET | From | Ultamist Party | To | Debating the Employee Protection Act |
| Message | Support. |
| Date | 04:33:14, March 08, 2006 CET | From | Intellectual Revolution Party | To | Debating the Employee Protection Act |
| Message | Do we really want to make it necessary to ask the government before firing an employee? The whole point of free business is just that, the business is free to hire or fire employees as it will. If their practices are considered unethical people will stop using them and they will collapse. That's the way free business works, it doesn't require laws to run it, it only requires competition. If employees are unruly then a busienss has every right to remove them. It is unethical to give the government the power to disrupt the free business system by letting them tell companies who they can or can't fire. Think of where this could head. Soon the government could be saying who one could hire and then it could travel to complete centrilization or communism. The government needs to keep out of certain things, and the inner workings of business is one fo them. |
| Date | 09:08:18, March 08, 2006 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Employee Protection Act |
| Message | We kindly ask the IRP assemblymen and -women to read the proposal more carefully. This policy would require government approval only when the employer wants to fire a worker for striking without a valid reason. |
| Date | 23:20:32, March 08, 2006 CET | From | Intellectual Revolution Party | To | Debating the Employee Protection Act |
| Message | IRP is aware of the guildelines of the proposal. That is what we meant when we talked about companies firing troublesome workers. If a worker is on strike then it is up to the company to decide if it's a valid strike or not. That is not the government's place. |
| Date | 04:51:39, March 09, 2006 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Employee Protection Act |
| Message | The DFLI supports. Workers fired for organizing should not have to wait months or years for an uncertain court process to order the return of their lost income. Employers are by the nature of the proces not the best judges in this regard. While the DFLI hopes that this can be handled in as unbureaucratic and local a way as possible, we do recognize it needs to be handled. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 527 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 72 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
| Random quote: "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. " - P. J. O Rourke |