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Bill: Employers' Rights Act
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: December 2200
Description[?]:
| Employers have as much right to fire workers who strike as the workers have to strike in the first place. |
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 are free to fire workers who go on strike.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:28:58, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Employers' Rights Act |
| Message | This proposal is outrageous! This will lead to an intimidated work force, concerned less with doing quality work, and more concerned with the oppresive working conditions employers now have the freedom to create, without any fear of being stopped. This proposal creates a grossly unbalanced relationship between worker and employer. |
| Date | 16:26:43, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Whigs | To | Debating the Employers' Rights Act |
| Message | Employees have every right to fire workers, just as workers have every right to go on strike. In previous bills, I gave the workers more rights (such as legalizing secondary strike action and allowing ALL workers to go on strike). Now, to balance the system, the employers must have the right to fire when they deem necessary. The government should not restrict someone's right to fire their workers. The rights should spread equally between employer and employee. |
| Date | 18:48:42, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Employers' Rights Act |
| Message | "Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons" It's right there... Employers CAN still fire workers, when they go on strike for no reason. |
| Date | 22:41:15, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Whigs | To | Debating the Employers' Rights Act |
| Message | but, they should have the right to fire workers whenever they want to. Just like the workers have to right to strike, whenever they want to. |
| Date | 22:54:23, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Ecology Party | To | Debating the Employers' Rights Act |
| Message | The only problem with that: workers who go on strike do so because they want to change a part of their work environment, if fear of losing your job because you want to better your working conditions comes into play, then workers will be more inclined to conform to non-radical behavior, because they need their job to survive. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 218 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 447 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 85 |
| Random fact: When forming a cabinet, try to include as few parties as possible, while still obtaining a majority of the seats. |
| Random quote: "Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." - Aristotle |