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Bill: Enforced Living Wage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likatonia First
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: November 4700
Description[?]:
| To make sure everyone gets a living wage from thier empolyer we should change the law to force it and help the worst off in our society. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:06:23, January 22, 2020 CET | From | Conservative Republican Party | To | Debating the Enforced Living Wage Act |
| Message | OOC: several developed nations have no legal minimum wage and have a lower unemployment rate. |
| Date | 15:42:08, January 23, 2020 CET | From | Democratic Party of Likatonia | To | Debating the Enforced Living Wage Act |
| Message | We must say no to this bill. We are defending workers, but we can't raise minimum wage, because it won't lead us into the right direction |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 176 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 499 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson |