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Bill: SP - 9 Economic Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist 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: February 4727
Description[?]:
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY PREAMBLE: Whereas it has been noticed that some economic policies of our country harm the rights of the workers and is bureaucratic, and since keeping the national bank under the direct oversight of a department is a bit bureaucratic, and since it is socially unjust to not ban child labour which is a social evil harming the overall development of the child, and since it is democratically fair to not permit closed shops to operate, and since there is no law in the private sector to grant the employees the right to collectively bargain, and since the corporate tax rate isn't fair, and since there is law on regulating the charging of interest on loans, and since there is no law which prohibits the firing of workers, and since it harms the rights of the workers to only permit government run trade unions, and since it breaks the unity of the proletariat to make secondary strike action illegal, SECTION 1: This is the SP - 9 Economic Reform Act SECTION 2: The central bank shall be underneath the direct oversight of the national legislature. SECTION 3: Closed shops shall be legal. SECTION 4: Public and private sector employees shall have the right to collectively bargain. SECTION 5: Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations shall be 35%. SECTION 6: Banks and financial institutions shall charge interest on loans and which shall be regulated. SECTION 7: Employers shall not fire workers who have gone on strike. SECTION 8: All forms of trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary. SECTION 9: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers. SECTION 10: This bill becomes a law as soon as the National Consultative Assembly passes this with a majority, |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Central Bank oversight and regulation (if a central bank exists)
Old value:: The central bank is underneath the direct oversight of the Ministry of Finance.
Current: The government appoints the head of the central bank and an executive board to manage the central bank but does not otherwise interfere in its operations.
Proposed: The central bank is underneath the direct oversight of the national legislature.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Current: Child labour is allowed, but with additional regulations to those of adult labourers.
Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Closed shops are places of employment where only members of a specific union are allowed to work; union shops can hire non-members, but these have to become members after a certain time; agency shops can hire non-members, who have to pay a fee to cover the unions costs. All three are erected by union agreements. (Only valid if unions are legal)
Old value:: Union shops and agency shops are legal, but closed shops are not.
Current: Closed shops, union shops and agency shops are legal.
Proposed: Closed shops, union shops and agency shops are legal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Collective bargaining
Old value:: Only public sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Current: Public and private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Proposed: Public and private sector employees have the right to collectively bargain
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 12
Current: 30
Proposed: 35
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the charging and collection of interest on loans
Old value:: The central bank determines the policy on charging interest on loans (if one exists)
Current: Banks and financial institutions charge interest on loans and are regulated
Proposed: Banks and financial institutions charge interest on loans and are regulated
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards labor unions.
Old value:: Only government-run trade unions exist and membership in them is compulsory.
Current: Trade unions may exist and all workers must have membership in one.
Proposed: Trade unions may exist and worker membership is voluntary.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 100 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." - John Dalberg-Acton |