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Bill: Foreign Spending and Employment Act 4382 (Liberty)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty 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: January 4383
Description[?]:
| Liberty would like to ensure that Beluzian citizens have first bite of the employment cherry. The current child labor laws are unclear as to whether they include allowing a child to hold a paperboy job or to act in films. If so, It is nonsensical to restrict these positions from children which is why we advocate moving to a allowable but regulatory legal framework. Liberty would like the citizens themselves to decide how long they wish to work.We'd also propose moving to a voluntary union system and we should make a majority harder to obtain for unions to prevent frivolous strikes. Liberty would also like tighten up the foreign aid system so that money goes to disaster relief and not to upgrading a despot's palace and tank fleet. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is forbidden.
Current: Child labour is forbidden.
Proposed: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
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 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards foreign workers.
Old value:: Foreign nationals are treated the same as native citizens when searching for employment.
Current: Foreign nationals may only be employed in circumstances where the government has determined there is a labour shortage.
Proposed: Foreign nationals may only be employed in circumstances where the government has determined there is a labour shortage.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Current: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Proposed: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Current: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:15:24, April 23, 2018 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Foreign Spending and Employment Act 4382 (Liberty) |
| Message | I am shocked that Parliament has decided to enslave our children by allowing children to work without any regulation or protections guaranteed. That means a 12 year old can go out and work in some of our dirtiest of mines. Even with regulations, you are still taking away the rights of a child to live, work, have a family, basically every human right by subjecting them to work, because even by regulating what the child can do, you are still opening them up to any possible work. Think of the Industrial Revolution in Terra two thousand years ago. Children were subjected to working in factories without any protection whatsoever and these children were 9-13 working hours and hours on machinery until they were literally exhausted and collapsed on the spot, or even worse, died. It wasn't until 70 years later that our attitudes towards children started to change and we put in place the building blocks for free and compulsory education system By the late stages, children were going to school rather than work and being treated as children rather than 'little adults'. Many could avoid exploitation of their childhood and get an education. Adult labourers had children that worked in factories when better regulations were placed, but that does not change how they are treated, as they are still expected to do hard labour, albeit more restrictive. Child labour is work that deprives a child of their childhood, interferes with their education and is dangerous morally, physically and mentally. I think it is nonsensical that the Liberty Party thinks that paperboy job or acting in films is child labour when it is clearly not, as it is not depriving you of anything. You can continue having your education in any form as you are not restricted. Yet having children engaged in diamond mining or in a coal mine deprives them of education, as day after day, they have to go back and work because their family is poor. Are household chores done by a child child labour? Are child artists a form of child labour? Do they exploit the child? I think enslaving children is more exploitative then having them throw newspapers across the lawn. I think offering a child for prostitution is more exploitative then having them act in some coming of age film. I think offering a child for illicit activities in particular for the trafficking of drugs is more exploitative then a child helping an elderly man mow his lawn. Child labour is not a part-time job which you do for a small salary or a full time job you do when you somehow became famous because somehow you stood out in drama class and was picked out for acting. I suggest that the Freedom Party reconsider their vote and work with the KWRF to truly implement fundamental and common sense workers laws |
| Date | 11:03:05, April 23, 2018 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Foreign Spending and Employment Act 4382 (Liberty) |
| Message | Liberty encourages our friends at the Front to re-read the bill. It would have saved them much time and consternation. And they might even see they can support the bill. Or they can continue being the party of no. Up to them. |
| Date | 12:10:33, April 23, 2018 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Foreign Spending and Employment Act 4382 (Liberty) |
| Message | I looked at the bill before my comments and I still cannot support this bill as it does not assure daily working hours for the workers and that hiring policies will be fair and equal for all minorities rather than not regulating who can employ who which can lead to discrimination. If the Liberty Party is willing to change some of the laws proposed here in an alternate bill, I will be willing to support |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 348 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 262 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life organisations should not be referenced in Particracy, unless they are simple and generic (eg. "National Organisation for Women" is allowed). |
| Random quote: "I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger." - Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam |